Chapter 424 - A Plan

It took but a few seconds for the true horror to begin, barely a breath between the shuddering calm that followed the initial blast and the unraveling chaos that surged up from below like a tide of rot. The smore, the thick, grimy smoke and dust born of fire, blood, and debris, had clung stubbornly to the lower parts of the city, veiling all beneath a blanket of swirling grey ash and acrid stench. But no veil could last forever. The haze began to thin, then part, and what it revealed sent a chill through the marrow.