The orange and blue walls of the sitting room were much brighter than the dull grey walls of the kitchen.

Their newsmagazine airs twice weekly.

Even that […] had been less awful than this date-rape opportunity and likely dogging hotspot, with its hasty skim of tarmac spread like cheap, stale caviar across the pink pedestrian tiles beneath […].

If her attempt to uninclude someone from the Fade's hive had worked, then it might have been possible to reclaim the world for humans and undo the damage of the last several decades.