Smoke swallowed the city long before we reached its centre.
The sky burned orange above the rooftops while ash drifted through the streets in heavy clouds. Screams carried from every direction. Gunshots cracked somewhere in the distance, frantic and uneven beneath the roar of spreading fire and collapsing buildings.
Humans flooded the roads in blind panic.
Some carried children against their chests. Some dragged wounded relatives behind them. Others simply ran with terror carved into their faces while vampires hunted through the streets like starving gods finally unleashed.
I watched one leap onto the hood of a fleeing car before tearing through the windshield with his bare hand. Across the street, witches stood upon a balcony with flames spiralling around their fingers as an apartment complex burned beneath them.
The city was dying.
Street by street.
"Chloe."
I turned sharply toward Ivy.
