The journey through the miasma to the north of Williston was long but uneventful. Omaha lingered behind and kept close to Sloan, but at no point did she have to surreptitiously strike down a wraith closing in on Sloan's back or rush ahead and slay an enemy the team might have difficulty dispatching. Nor did Pollack commit any more blunders to aggrieve Dufresne; she kept her bubbles for Sloan's defense and allowed Dufresne free reign over the wraith vanguard. Their communication was disjointed and sparse, but at least the three functioned adequately on their own, if not as a unit. Now that Sloan had salvaged herself from the dead zone, she moved quicker and fired faster and did not sap so much of Pollack's magic. This allowed Pollack to use her barriers to more creative purposes, like walling off alleyways to prevent whole hordes of wraiths from even entering the battle.

(Chapter 9)