Ruuuun!"
"They've breached the city!"
"Don't look back and keep running!"
The streets of Delwig were chaos. Shouts rang out from alleyways as civilians scattered in every direction—some dragging children, others too frozen to move, and a few even gripping farming tools or rusted weapons as if they could fight the horrors spilling into their city.
"If you snooze, you're food!"
Even amidst the running and shouting, someone found a way to make a joke out of the situation. Whether the speaker was trying to make light of the condition or to actually state a fact, no one knew. Actually, no one even had the audacity to think about the statement let alone question it.
Anyone who had the time to do that would probably be "food" as the speaker had stated.
