Even at low stride, Faero left a trail of destruction in its wake. Its bulk brushed down walls in narrow streets, or crushed through mouldering hab blocks in the absence of clearance. In this district, many of the structures were already ramshackle and derelict. Stonework and timbers were blackened with age and pollution. The hulks of four- and five-storey structures stood unroofed, and Faero snagged on overhanging eaves and rotten support frames as it crunched forwards, demolishing moribund slum buildings that had stood for six or seven hundred years. It manoeuvred through murky nests of
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