XXIII | The Boar Eels
Within moments of mounting his dais and gaining control of the gondola, as well as switching on the audio receiver of his mask (which had been off since they’d entered the f*******n Channels), Dravidian informed her that Sihadi had, indeed, made contact, and that while he was preoccupied with coordinating an escape for the battle’s survivors—for the Lucitor would be sending reinforcements even now—he would contact them again at first opportunity. Then, as a cloud of ignudi descended upon them seemingly out of nowhere, and Milkweed herself landed cooing upon Shekalane’s shoulder, he hastened to tell her one more thing: that the power supply of his mask was orb-based; which was to say, it received and stored energy from the radiance of the sun orbs, and therefore they
