A Hail of Musketry

BELLE checks on the first Fade whom Richter shot and Kaze struck in the head. Yes, he's dead.

SKY shot the Fade away from Christine. The Fade rolls out the way of Sky’s guns, then vanishes into the wall of the hotel. Sky, one way or another, is about to land.

JANET pokes her Fade with her knife. Her Fade keeps stabbing her as well. Who will wear out first?

MICHAEL pulls Christine to safety. He can put her behind the car; there isn’t really time to put her into the car, because the six men who got out of the Model T now start shooting at Sky, Janet, and Michael himself.

The men from the car are of two distinct types. Five of them are Americans, dressed in dark-colored suits of clothes. Most of them put their hats on as they got out, automatically.

The sixth man is dressed in an expensive black silk suit with no hat. He seems to have thick black lace gloves and black marks all over his face, like a network of black scars.

One guy with a Tommy gun and one with a shotgun open fire on Michael, who is behind the car relative to them. The trunk is facing the gangsters and Michael and Christine are behind the hood. There’s a huge Packard engine between him and harm’s way, so although the windows shatter, the tires explode, the mirrors blow off and the bodywork is peppered with holes, he’s all right.

Another fires at Janet, but that doesn’t accomplish anything at all. She's still Faded.

Another fires at Sky, but misses, fortunately.

The last American gangster raises his Tommy gun and sprays the third-floor window where Sonny-Boy blew his loopholes. The loopholes are small, so no one is hit, although one slug does come through the window and thump hammeringly loudly into the ceiling.

The sixth man watches intently as his men advance, firing all the while. They are closing in on the car, shooting at everyone else they see except the surviving Shadow Guard.

RICHTER ducks out the window and fires a shot, then ducks back inside. He doesn't seem to hit anything.