- Deryn's sliding escape sounds really fun, we have to say—kind of like zip-lining, but way more dangerous.
- She lands on the airbeast, and it cushions her fall; warning the men around of the approaching walker, she runs to find Alek.
- When she finds him in the machine room with Dr. Barlow, she tells him what's happening, and they both begin to run for the walker.
- Deryn is trying to get the people in the walker to see Alek before anyone starts shooting.
- When they get in front of the walker, Deryn takes Alek hostage, holding a knife to his throat. It is, in fact, not betrayal but a brilliant plan.
- Deryn and Alek bicker about the relative brilliance of this plan. Like they do about everything.
- Alek tells her to ask Volger to come down under truce, which is what she does.
- Newkirk is hovering over them in a Huxley—ready to drop an aerial bomb.
- Volger descends from the walker, and Deryn and Alek both hope the negotiations work because both sides could destroy each other. Never a good situation.