Chapter 79 The Machine Heart

• It was a new dawn and when I looked around, the city was almost unfamiliar to me. What had been grand structures now arched in ways that were physically impossible and their walls and facades were covered with crawling active wiring. Below the craters of the street, there were lots of mangled cars, broken concrete, and the Architect’s techno-human soldiers.
• “This way,” Morris whispered, guiding us through a very narrow path. ‘There is an old subway tunnel that should bring us closer to the center without being seen. ”
• As we sailed through this ‘wild west’, my mind was working overtime. That image of a transformed Alessandro was still vivid in my mind and that made it possible for me to imagine that Zoe too was but an image of what she used to be.