Wiley still had time to look back to see how Clyde was doing. What he saw was quite surprising; Clyde just stood there as if waiting for something, the headless corpses of the creatures lay around him, looking insignificant in front of Clyde.
"Wiley! What are you doing?!" Rosie's scream woke Wiley, who didn't realize that he had slowed down when he looked at Clyde.
Wiley faced forward again. Without saying anything he dashed after his friends.
What Maethion and Clyde had said about the bounds in their power of systems rang in their heads. If they did face Celestials, then whatever they did would be completely useless. So they just have to run as hard as they can.
While Albert, Rosie, Wiley, and Lola ran away, Clyde was still where he had been standing. He scanned around to wait if anything else might appear in this place and attack.
