Eventually, professionals arrived, and the city was worse than they could've expected. The roads were covered in sleek ice, the buildings had frozen over and threatened to collapse. The Alien was nowhere in slight, but the constant freezing air made it clear it wasn't defeated.
"Come on!" One of the responders called out before everyone rushed further into the frozen city. Among the crowd was Garnok, Alaric's father. His eyes searched the mostly empty city, left for a few civilians still trying to escape with the police. They were mostly on the outskirts, meaning they were pretty safe from all the danger. Of course, there were probably still civilians elsewhere, luckily they had people for that…
