Last spark from the ashes

"Don't do it to humans, anyway," Blaze corrects happily.

"We're passing over the south of Old China now. Those mountains ahead are part of the Himalayan range."

It looks like they're heading toward the dawn line, too: there's a glimpse of the shadowed arc of twilight ahead. No artificial lights to break it up, of course. And there's something else, too: a thick bank of clouds that looms over the sheer and snow-capped mountains, flickering with lightning. Neither bot seems concerned: they just keep flying toward it.

"The approach is always pretty stormy," Blaze comments. "Think it's part of the Traveler's defenses. The Fallen have never gotten far trying to attack by air."