The weather was unusually cold.
The temperature had already dropped to ten degrees below zero.
As a Fire Element Superpower User, Nina Jacobs didn't feel the cold, despite wearing only a form-fitting black leather outfit.
A drone zipped past overhead, apparently still searching for something.
As the minutes ticked by, the drone finally flew away. From a previously empty patch of shadows, Nina Jacobs's figure emerged.
The sound of coughing came again.
Nina Jacobs walked along the cold, stone-paved road, heading toward the sound.
A blasted slab of stone leaned precariously against the remains of a wall.
Beneath the slab was a dark, huddled shape.
Looking closer, the dark object appeared to be a drafty black plastic bag, and the coughing was coming from underneath it.
The person, or whatever it was, seemed to have noticed her too.
A pair of mismatched eyes watched her warily from the darkness, but the body huddled beneath the black plastic bag trembled nonstop.
