the series-titled novel, assembled in jigsaw puzzle-piece fashion.
mice and messages (Ilya, Katya)
*gets jumper cables!* (Ilya, Katya, Dima) (comments!snip, ~taennyn)
lightning in the dark (Ilya, Bogoroditsa crew)
lightning from within (Sinclair, Grammont)
birch forests (Ilya, Bogoroditsa crew)
oh, my god . . . (Ilya)
in theory (Ilya)
"You sure of that?" (Ilya) (comments!snip, ~taennyn)
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rumours like fish (Grammont, Sinclair)
closing in (Sinclair)
clearing the field a bit (Captain Miroslavovich, Sinclair)
introductions (Ilya, Sinclair)
run like you stole it (Ilya, Grammont, Sinclair)
polished steel (Ilya) (comments!snip, ~taennyn)
I don't want to know. (Ilya, Sinclair)
tick (Sinclair)
. . hel. (Sinclair) (stage-setting)
questions that aren't questions. (Sinclair, Sergeievich)
say what? (Stas, Sinclair, Sergeievich)
reassurances (Stas, Sinclair, Sergeievich)
. . Okay, then. (Sinclair, Sergeievich)
bad news (Stas, Sergeievich)
laying a few seeds (Stas)
arrest (Ilya)
captured (Ilya, Sinclair)
I'm not waiting around here (Ilya, Sinclair)
lies, lies and more lies (Stas)
suspicions (Stas, Sergeievich)
a drastic change in appearance (Grammont, Ilya, Sinclair) (comments!snip, ~taennyn)
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exposed steel, like broken bones (Grammont, Ilya, Sinclair) (comments!snip, ~taennyn)