Sinclair followed Swann and for a moment, he smiled in his old way, watching her tend to Beau like he was made of glass. The children were probably the only good thing to come out of that war, and in his age, he learned to appreciate the gift of survival more and more as his rage dissipated into deep resentment for the new government.

"There's enough left of the structures to know wha' the buildings were. They've repurposed it all t' their needs, as if wantin' to erase what was once ours," he responded, mourning the loss of his Solutions Towers and the Honeymead Holdings that once made their mark in their respective sections.

"We'll be footnotes to them."