margin-right:0in">This time, as Wendigo lifts the body, he lets go of the head. Dentona flies toward the city, arms and legs spread like a starfish, and soars over the remaining suburbs. He finally descends over the center of LA as I hear Magno utter a curse.

"Oh, shit."

Dentona smashes into the US Bank Tower, the tallest building in the city, and folds over it like a newspaper caught on a telephone pole in hurricane force winds. The creature doesn’t move, but the tower does: Low rumbling fills the air as the tower collapses. Below, a new plume of smoke erupts from the pillar's base and consumes the rest of the crumbling structure. Dentona's limp body slides down, beating the tower's logo to the ground, and then both are lost in the flood of smog consuming downtown.

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