6The wilderness rapidly became blemished with concrete and then erupted into a full infection of industry. S'aven smoked and hissed beneath them as they soared across the urban landscape. The air thickened in dense plumes of sulphuric cloud as the sky greyed. Heat waves drifted off the flat roofs, trapped under a thick cloudy blanket. Summer in S'aven was unbearable and, even as high as they were, they couldn't escape the suffocation of the shanty town encircling London.
There was an insulating blanket on the helicopter. Rachel wrapped Darcy in it, focusing on him rather than the buildings beneath them. He was still stable, although Rachel had no idea how that was even possible after all he'd been through. The space in the helicopter was crowded and she had to cradle Darcy on her lap. Joh
