“I wonder if the whole world’s like this now, or just Milton.” Sometimes, Chloe has learned from experience, a city just sucks. If this is something like what they'd found in Tibet, or Nate’s little Ubar adventure, there could be an obliviously normal town just days away. Not that it would help them now.

“I know there's a bunch of post-apocalypse shit out there about electrical storms knocking out the power grid, but I don't think they're supposed to make it work again afterward.”