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Daemon considered kicking the s**t out of her television.
What it was showing was just so damn wrong!
Hi-res, full-color, with running commentary—it was breaking news on a dozen different channels.
“Korean War fighter jet attacks White House” was far from the most lurid or inaccurate.
Some enterprising producer tapped the EarthCam at the top of the Washington Monument, then highlighted the Sabrejet from the moment it came into view.
Daemon could see it stumble in the sky.
It lost altitude abruptly as the engine power had failed.
It wavered as the pilot fought to restart all the things Daemon had made sure wouldn’t restart.
Then, less than a hundred feet left to fall before it plummeted into the Potomac, it carved a hard turn straight toward the camera high atop the Washington M
