Chapter 15
One minute we were all standing there, staring through the water at the ballpark’s pitcher’s mound, the next we were on the floor, bouncing and thrashing like fish on a pier just after they’ve been plucked from the sea.
“Earthquake,” I said through chattering teeth. “I thought…you didn’t get those…because…the city…is built…on steel.”
Out of all of us, only Tag remained standing. Then again, out of all of us, Tag didn’t have legs. Or feet. Or anything, really.
“No,” he said. “We generally don’t experience earthquakes because of the steel. Still, if the tremor is large enough, we can still feel it.”
He was a blur in front of me, mainly because my head was shaking so badly. “But this is…a huge…earthquake.”
He nodded. I think. “The largest.” He paused. “The building’s syste
