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When Ann hoisted her up by her armpits, the little girls eyes widened more than seemed physically possible. Jake would have found it funny if this entire situation wasn't so horrific. He watched Ann head off with the girl and Ariadne head in the same direction with Owlman slung awkwardly over her shoulder. Confident that the twins would get the two most at risk here to safety, Jake turned back to Aya. "I'm ok," she said to Jake. "You don't have to worry about me." Jake harumphed at her and gave her what in his mind was a [i]"Yeah, right"[/i] look. There was no way he was buying that. No one in their right mind would be ok after what had happened here today. He'd let her put on a brave face if it helped her though. When Aya moved off after the twins, Jake dutifully plodded along at her side, casting one last glance at Spectrum before he went.

The small group made their way to the rear of a nearby hangar where they found a helicopter guarded by four men. At first, Jake assumed these men to be reformists but when they aimed their weapons at the group Jake was quickly in front of the girls. He wouldn't be much of a shield but nevertheless he adopted a defensive posture and growled so loud that it seemed to echo off of the nearby hangar walls. He sounded more like some kind of hellish monster than a dog.
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The large tv hanging from the wall in the coffee shop Lattetude was always tuned to the news but no one ever really payed much attention to it as they drank their coffee and went about their own business. Today was different. Today everyone was glued to the screen. A group of people had gathered around as the news copters hovered over the reformists HQ, broadcasting scenes of panic as scores of people rushed to escape whatever was going on inside.

One of the copters had caught some of the carnage that had transpired at the rear of the building but quickly panned away. Clearly even the media weren't so heartless as to wantonly expose their viewers to that kind of gore. Raven was thankful for that. She had looked away when she had seen someone killed on the screen, as had many others. Some even rushed out of the cafe and Raven wondered if they were just horrified by what they had seen or if they actually knew someone in that building. She knew that wasn't beyond the realms of possibility.

As the news copter shifted its attention back to the front of the building, the anchor apologizing for anything anyone may have seen, Raven looked back around to the screen. Her expression mirrored everyone else in Lattetude. Shock and horror. Her eyes were wide and her mouth hung open as she watched a throng of people stop near a man. Some kind of skirmish was taking place between a couple of people but it didn't seem as bad as what was happening elsewhere. Raven eased slightly but her tension and her blood pressure rose exponentially when the broadcast was interrupted and the screen showed a young man in the clutches of some creature. The creature was a complete mystery but Raven knew the man. Cedric Wessix. The head of the reformists. What was going on here? Raven tried to vocalize her confusion but only managed to whisper "What--" before Cedric's neck was snapped. Everyone within Lattetude either gasped or screamed. Some cried as the broadcast shifted back to an equally stunned news anchor who tried to maintain his composure but was clearly as horrified as everyone else. Raven spun around with one hand covering her mouth and the other held against her stomach. She couldn't watch this anymore.

She felt like she was going to be sick.
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