mpbt13 audrey door

Fragments of fiery stone and charred wood fell from the façade of the Edificio Gumamela and onto the empty sidewalk of the Calle Escolta. The Gumamela's sturdy double doors that had been fortified by one of the most modern mechanism of bars and steel screens lay in smoldering ruin. The 105mm howitzer shells proved too strong for the doors to withstand.

Smoke rose from the barrels of a line 105mm howitzer guns that promptly disappeared in a flash of amber light. A certain American girl, sporting her cavalry coat and ranger's hat, held on to her golden scarf that waved in the evening Manila wind. Behind her was a young Filipina girl, wearing her collared olive-green shirt, mechanic's overalls and puffy light-green skirt, and six other girls clad in their magical attires.

(Magia, Pacem, Bellum Terarrum, Chapter 13)