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SPARKS FLY UPWARDS, Page 25

alschroeder

on Aug. 2, 2013

hunderous knows he's walking into a trap, but he's confident he can elude it, even without his traditional weaponry. However, he hasn't experienced what Flickerflame experienced, so the idea that Mr. Gerard is being directed by the other-reality Smiling Man —or that he can bridge realities—is absurd. Besides, Thunderous is not too big in the imagination department.

Flickerflame, though not wanting to believe—knows the truth. He may have to protect Thunderous against his wrong assumptions.

Thunderous was a young man in 1908 (like many of the Next Level, Ageless keeps him young) so his grandmother would have been in her prime in the nineteenth century…and in Russia, tales of Baba Yaga or Koschei would have been used as scary fairy tales.