For the Flashback had come to southern California—come with its otherworldly weather and pterodactyls which circled like tornado debris; its time-scrambling phantasmagoria, its erasure of both the living and the dead—just as it had come to all the world. He batted his eyes and came out of it, saw two corpses spread out amongst the sage. Katrina and one other, having reverted to human form. Birds tweeted obliviously as their nude bodies lay broken beneath the sun. asked Ank as he stirred beneath Williams’ boots. Williams looked at the razor wire and at the steel pole to which it was attached. “Yeah. It’s—it’s all done. Both of them. I—can you let me down, please?” The ankylosaur groaned and knelt upon the broken pavement, after which Williams hopped off and crouched by his head. “Thos