"We didn’t kill anybody," Carol said bitterly. "All that structure-hit stuff—it’s just killing things , is what it is. Leo knew. Hell, Leo was the best we ever had. You never saw us just mow people down, even though we could have done that real easily. We were just trying to kill the machinery. Get rid of it. All that junk that had killed our world, y’know, the bulldozers and the coal plants and the logging machines and the smokestacks, the Goliath, the Monster, Behemoth, the Beast. It !" She shook herself, and wiped at her cheeks with the backs of her hands. " ’Cause it was too late to stop it any other way, and we all knew damn well what was happening to the world.... And if you think the Underground is all gone now, well, you got it wrong! They’re not gone at all. Hell no, they’re just real different now. They’ve got power now, a lot of ’em. They’re actually in the government, what passes for the government these days. Now they’ve got real power, not that hopeless pissant rebel shit with the Molotovs and the monkey wrenches and the bullshit manifestos, I mean real power, real plans, terrible power, terrible plans. They’re all people like him."