Unfortunately, the lamppost is out of Benni's reach. Resorting to using her Remarkable Strength to fight the force of the exploding torrents of water, Benni finds she is able to
pretty much direct the spray where and how she wants...mostly...that's not to say that her and Jericho will not look like two drowned rats when this is all over...
Jericho arcs a bolt of electricity at the spewing fireplug. Beautiful, twinkling sparks fill the air. Rats begin to scurry away or roll over dead. Rioters shout loudly as they receive mild electrical shocks (nothing that will cause significant damage). Benni and Jericho get a nifty 'tingling' feeling. The crowd in the empty lot and the crowd adjacent to Lenny Lamberton's begins to come back to their senses. The fighting around you stops as the previous rioters look around, wondering what's going on, and why they are all soaking wet.
Unfortunately, that only takes care of about half of the rioters. The other half are around the other side of the empty lot.
Benni fails to notice the costumed lion-man leaping off the roof across the street as she's busy taking in the pretty rainbow created by the spray of fireplug water and reflected sunlight.
The crowd size remains the same, but only about half of the people are still rioting, pretty much those in the north area. As he focuses his attention of the remaining group of rioters (about half of them outside Crum Apartments), Blackbird spies Rachel's son, Reggie, looking someone panic-stricken, and being pushed along with the crowd.
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Somewhere on the ocean, a lonely freighter travels East. One of its crew members scans the horizon through a set of binoculars.
"There it is...there it is!"*, he cries excitedly. An older contemplative man walks out on the deck. Squinting his eyes and staring off into the distance, he comments to himself
"Good. Once this delivery is made, we can return home and forget we ever heard of Nap Yaan."*
* Translated from Chinese.
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