## Metadata - Author: [[Ian Tregillis]] - Full Title: Necessary Evil - Category: #books ## Highlights - Marsh inched forward on his stomach, toward the battery he’d dropped. Night became day. He looked up, dreading what he’d see. A figure stood in the center of the training field, sheathed in a swirling corona of violet flame. Reinhardt blazed like a vengeful sunrise. *   *   * My world was chaos. Peals of man-made thunder deafened me, suffocated me, slapped me. My eyes burned from constant readjustment to darkness and light. As the bombers overflew me, so, too, did their payloads catch up, then surround me. Every explosion strobed the night and etched a still life of the dying city into my eyelids. ([Location 4464](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00AEC9IZW&location=4464)) - Reinhardt’s brilliance cast knife-edged shadows in all directions. Every brick in the rubble, every strand of autumn-dry grass stood at the focus of its own spotlight. Heat shimmer rose from his body in waves, distorting everything around him like a desert mirage. ([Location 4511](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00AEC9IZW&location=4511)) - the curling edge of hysteria fluted my voice. ([Location 4601](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00AEC9IZW&location=4601)) - Ever since I had swallowed fire, liquor and my throat went together like feral cats in a wet sack. ([Location 5675](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00AEC9IZW&location=5675))