Near Giza, Cairo Metropolitan region, Egypt!
ROAAAAAARR....!!
A roar suddenly tore through the clouds.
Not sound alone but pressure, a vibration that scraped against bone and soul alike. The quadcopter shuddered violently the moment it crossed into the skies above Cairo.
What should have been midnight in Egypt—
Was not night at all.
The heavens were split open.
Jagged seams of sickly green light tore across the sky like fresh wounds, violent aurora-like beams writhing and colliding, bathing the land in an unholy glow. The moon impossibly large and brilliant, bleaching the desert white as bone.
Below... Nothing.
Only dark locusts.
A living ocean of black wings swallowed the lower skies, enough to blot out the land entirely. Whatever was happening on the ground was hidden beneath millions upon millions of crawling shadows.
Then—
BANG!!
The quadcopter slammed to a halt midair.
Not slowed, but stopped entirely.
"…!"
