Vows of Graphite and Guilt
He shoved her ahead of him, not toward the hidden basalt shaft she had forced open, but toward the exposed western edge of the penthouse where the glass had been blown inward.
"We aren't going down the ladder," Clara realized, the wind whipping her hair across her face as they reached the precipice. Below them, Manhattan was a jagged, dark grid of skyscrapers flickering in the black rain.
"The shaft is compromised if they possess thermal mapping," Julian said, his body pressed flush against her back, driving her toward a massive, structural steel I-beam that formed the exterior perimeter framework of The Vanguard. "We are using the external maintenance gantry. The window-washing cradle."