It was Chola Se, calling out to me from the East Tower. As I spun round and looked over, I saw Kite hurrying across the walkway towards her, her pistol raised, yelling at Chola Se to keep quiet, and I saw Chola Se standing against the parapet wall, her hands still tied behind her back, her body twisted round in a strangely awkward position. Her head was facing me – her eyes burning into mine – but her legs were side-on to the wall, one in front of the other, her feet about 18 inches apart.

She glanced at Kite, saw that she was closing fast, then quickly turned back to me and called out again at the top of her voice.

WELE STILL DIE TOGETHER, JEET! FIGHT FOR US---NOW!

And then, with a graceful bound, she launched herself up and over the parapet wall and was gone.

I knew she couldnt survive the fall. It was a sheer 90-foot drop to a solid mass of glassrock---no one could live through that. I knew it, and for a fraction of a second after shede jumped the pain screamed through me like a dagger plunging into my heart---but then, in an instant, she came back to me, and I saw her again just before she jumped – the life in her eyes, the telling sound of her voice – FIGHT FOR US---NOW! – and I knew---

I knew what shede done.

And I knew what she wanted me to do.

I waited a moment.

Ide moved across to the eastside walkway when Ide seen Chola Se leaping from the tower, and as I stood there now – still pressed up closely to the parapet wall, watching Kite as she leaned out over the battlements and gazed down at the ground, searching for Chola Se – I knew Glorian would be coming for me. Without Chola Se they no longer had a hold over me, and Glorian had to put that right---and hede want to do it right now, while I was still in shock, still stunned by the sight of Chola Se jumping to her death---still frozen to the spot, blinded by grief, unable to see him coming---

I could hear him crossing the walkway now – rapidly, silently---

I still waited.

I could sense him right behind me – his presence, his breath, his sweat---

I heard Pilgrim shout, DONT KILL HIM!

And I moved, dropping to my left just as Glorian lunged at me from behind. He sailed past me, stumbling wildly, and his momentum sent him crashing heavily into the parapet wall, and as the ancient battlements cracked and gave way under his massive weight, and he lurched down over the crumbling wall, I spun round, threw my arms round his legs, and heaved him over the edge.