About the Girl

Mandy and Arthur both try to step between Brian and Alex, try to talk the boy down, but with his sister dead and Brian, who Alex thought happily long-gone from this world, present, there's no dissuading him; Alex seems determined to kill Brian Jaffe.
     "I understand now," says a voice from the clear air. "I think this is what I'm supposed to do." Alex fires the shot and, though Arthur partially deflects the shot, his special knife is shattered in the process an invisible Vivian takes the hit. From there, it's chaos.
     Brian operates to save Vivian's life, Mandy melts down some Promethium to build Jack a "cyber-core" and fix Arthur's knife and Arthur goes to have a talk with his son. The talk doesn't go well, and Alex leaves the compound. Arthur returns to have a talk with Brian about Maggie's death. Brian's broken nose later, Arthur says "if it had been anyone else but you pulling that trigger, I would have killed them."
     Meanwhile, Alex has found the government and, in exchange for his own death, he tells them the secret location of Contingency. With his special hearing, Brian is privy to this conversation and the other side of it holds a very chilling voice indeed.
     In a rush to get ourselves out, we board a train car on a limited track and, though the plan is to have Arthur teleport us to China, when the lights come up again we find ourselves home, only we're all whole; Vivian has no bullet wound, Brian's nose his unharmed and even Jack is back in his body. It's 4 months after we left.

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The AMERICAN GODS