<P>"That' all I remember. Blinding light. I thought it had only been the Red Arrow, I shot several of them..." She stared at Dominic. "There was something else there. I can't tell you how afraid I suddenly felt. There was something else there. You saw the destruction." She paused and shook her head. "What can do that? What can destroy something that easily? All I remember is a light. And then I heard some of the most terrible sounds of my life. And then I woke up, and Jock stood over me..."
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<P>They had landed on an appropriate building somewhere in Hong Kong. They didn't know where. They didn't care.
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<P>Jaime was with them. Jock was there. Dominic, and Jess, and Alex.
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<P>Everyone else they had known was dead. Even Tong.
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<P>"Dominic," Jock said suddenly, "You're... Tong told us something, when we saw him last. About you."
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<P>Bishop knew what was to be said before it was said.
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<P>Jock shook his head. "You're not..."
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<P>"I know."
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<P>He had the Dragon's Tooth sheathed beneath his belt. He did not until then realize that he had no idea for what purpose he had gone to get it in the first place. But he had done so, almost as though he had been driven, but it was entirely his own doing. No, it was just that he knew it had to be done. He accomplished something... But then that accomplishment fell to ruin, along with Tong and his compound.
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<P>As far as he could see there were two forces at work. One directed him as an officer directs a soldier. The other destroyed, and did all it could to get in the way of the first. 
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