Lose a city? What the heck? Emmanuelle floundered on that question a good bit before finally her brain kicked into gear and figured out what the professor meant. She raised her hand before answering, in a flat, not at all cheerful voice. "You could lose a city to any number of things, professor. Natural disasters; economic ruin; war; pestilence; bombs; nuclear accidents, like what happened to Chernobyl..." Yeah, this was getting too dark for her. She needed something to cheer her up, now.