Chapter Forty
Sophia felt like she was breathing for the first time in a while. She kept her hand on the lever, guiding the train forward into darkness, just as Czarina had done when they’d first commandeered the train.
Czarina returned to the cabin. ‘Train’s clear, no one got on.’
Sophia swallowed. ‘Good.’
‘We’re heading north,’ Czarina said. ‘What’s the plan?’
‘We burn the meteorite,’ Sophia said. ‘At two thousand five hundred degrees, preferably.’
Czarina lowered her carbine. ‘How about thermite grenades? We could raid the ESU. There’s one in the East Village. Precinct 13.’
‘They won’t have any,’ Sophia said.
‘So what then, a blast furnace?’ Czarina said. ‘I don’t think there’s one of those on the island. We’d have to go upstate—’ She stopped and said, ‘Oh. That’s where you’re g
