Good job Alison has a sat-nav on her phone. Before they were invented, I guess flying heroes would have to whip out a map and a compass and a long piece of string from their utility belts, and work out how many degrees from north to fly in, and hope that they don’t miss it.

I’m gonna make a series of called shots so people can make fun of me when I’m wrong:

Moonshadow is going to try and firebomb the dam apart, while using a Furnace illusion to make it look like he did it. She’s doing this to defame him, because in spite of being a shitburglar he’s squeaky clean in the eyes of the law.

Moonshadows knife has some way of getting past Alison’s invulnerability. She also tries some sort of psychological torture on Alison because she spent sixty bucks on a bulk container of illusions at costco and god dammit if she isn’t getting her monies worth.

Alison’s going to successfully stop Moonshadow in a way that makes it very public and very obvious that she’s the slasher. MS is going to be publicly tried and the case is either going to end with her getting a Martha Stewart sentence or with her getting the book thrown at her. Either way, her reputation is shot and her cause is publicly sullied, to the detriment of victims of sexual assault everywhere.

Assuming the bridge isn’t destroyed in the confrontation, Alison and Furnace are both going to receive a pretty positive PR bump from the whole thing, but the news spin on the situation is going to lead to one of them having their opinions overwritten by the other in the public eye.

Pat never turns himself in, and if need be vanishes back into the underworld, both because he’s a very psychoemotionally weak person and because Alison heaped verbal and physical abuse on him. Shockingly, a man who has lived the majority of life with extreme disparity in his relationships doesn’t believe in quid pro quo.

Hector isn’t seen or heard from again for at least another chapter and a half, because he has the narrative complexity of moldy wood.

Furnace’s mother’s grave, perhaps?

Nah, Mary’s gone way off the deep end. What we have here is a Chekov’s dam – its purpose is to collapse. Unless Allison can stop it, of course.

Now, wait just a dam minute!

The contours of his face make it look like adult Furnace. I assumed that was him and his ex. Who may have done the usual gripe-about-the-guy-you-just-broke-up-with on Facebook or wherever, and Mary took that as more validation for targeting him.

The article makes it sound like some new entertainment complex or gaming convention.

As for his reasons…

Of course not. She is JUSTICE! Not those oppressive government thugs!