Difference between revisions of "Summary:Steelheart"

Tia asks Abraham for more blood as she works to try and save Megan. While she had bandaged and stitched wounds, Megan had internal injuries that worried Tia. Abraham retrieves the blood and hooks it up to the equipment at Tia's request. Abraham and Tia wonder why the Harmsway doesn't work, commenting it was just like the tensors, which never worked for Megan either. David hears beeps of from the equipment monitoring Megan's pulse start to fade, and gets up to go get Prof. Tia tells him Prof can't help here. David sits again, closing Megan's eyes, before she then Megan flatlines. Tia tells him that she's gone, that there was nothing more she could have done, and that even if she'd been able to work on her immediately after the crash, it still might not even have been enough. Prof appears, asking if Megan's gone. Tia nods, and so Prof tells them to pack up - they are abandoning the base, as it has been compromised. David covers Megan with a blanket, leaving her face exposed, and goes to pick up the body, determined to make sure her body is cared for, but Prof tells him to leave it. Prof tells David to focus on getting vengeance on Steelheart. He instructs David to gather his notes, and pack up the imager, that they're leaving in ten minutes, and destroying everything left behind.

They exit through a tunnel Prof cuts into the hideout, setting off a blast in the hideout, burning everything inside. An hour later, Tia drops back to talk to David about how he's doing. Not wanting to talk about Megan, he asks about Prof, why he seems different. Tia tells him that Prof has bad memories attached to the tensors, that he hates them and is mad with himself, not David. Eventually they reach the new bolt-hole, which is a lot smaller than the previous one. Cody meets them there, helping to carry the equipment up into the main chamber. As David sets up his bedroll to get some sleep, Tia suggests hooking him up to the harmswayHarmsway, but David tells her "I'll live", lies down, and begins to cry.