Silently- he didn't trust himself to speak- Ray nodded.

Then came Eddie's voice over the headset, and a sudden, irrational surge went through Ray- a surge of gratitude. If he had to give orders then he didn't have to think-

"Eddie," he said through clenched teeth, one hand going up to tuck the headset a little more securely into his ear, "something's going to come through that hole in the sky very soon, something big, and if I know my mythology at all it's going to have a couple of bodyguards. Possibly airborne ones, possibly not. Take out anything that can fly first and then go after targets of opportunity on the rooftop- if it isn't human and it isn't Asar-Suti or a shapechanged Garion, it's a target. Am I understood?"