Editing City Series:Volume1 Chapter 7 (section)

===Part 18===

It was 3:53 PM.

The Flammen Ritter lay in two pieces in the middle of the Gertraudenstraße in front of the tower-less city hall. Even as the blocked traffic piled up, Mayer made no attempt to move from the cockpit.

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He simply looked up into the sky. The red of sunset was growing purple and vanishing. A deep blue darkness colored the sky as the stars and moon came out.

It looked like a scene from mythology.

Four Bladlikburgs took position in the four cardinal directions to create a path down the center and a god passed through that ring.

The god flew up into the blue sky and suddenly vanished.

For a while, a single trail of smoke could be seen rising into the heavens. A white blade thrust upwards as if slicing the nearly dark sky in two.

…''It’s as beautiful as a miracle.

“Well, it is ''Weihnachts''. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised to see a miracle.”

Oscar had to be looking up into the same sky from the Bladlikburg Eins.

“You made way for them, didn’t you, commander?”

Walter’s group had maintained a confrontational attitude to the end, but Oscar had shown his understanding of them. He had shown compromise.

…''It’s over.

It was all over, it was all going to change, and it would all begin anew.

But before then, Mayer wanted to sleep. He was exhausted.

“Next time, I’ll be even more…”

He trailed off and closed his eyes.

As he did, he heard a voice from his communicator.

“Um, we are up above Berlin and transmitting on all frequencies. We are currently ascending toward space. Everyone in Germany and the neighboring countries, turn in the direction you think Berlin is in and look up in the sky. You should see a cloud rising through that sky. What you’re seeing is…”

Mayer was no longer listening. He had fallen into a peaceful sleep.

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