Nonetheless, his new ability to go out in the sun had arrived just in time for this, their biggest and potentially last great stand, and he was grateful for that. Lucien and his two colleagues stood side by side surveying the incongruity up ahead while they waited for the demons to join them from the other car. There were only a handful of them in all; Lucien had reasoned that taking a large number of demons through to the other side of the Shield could cause even greater panic and distress when they were revealed for what they truly were. For now they were still hidden behind their human disguises, but that would no longer be the case once they were inside. Besides, he needed his team back at the offices almost as much as he needed those by his side right now – if anything went wrong, they could be ready to react instantly. The long line of traffic, coupled with the large number of people who now jammed the Fulham Road and every other street in the vicinity, made further progress by any other means than on foot impossible.
