Seeing what’s invisible
People screamed and ran aimlessly in terror. What had just happened was not only incredible: it was frightening and horrible. By then, there were five bodies torn in half on the ground: they seemed to have hovered on their own, and that likewise they had split themselves in half, scattering their internal organs and blood on the ground. Those absurd and huge footprints added to it: they appeared out of nowhere and grotesquely smeared the pavement of the square.
Together with other people who had reacted to panic differently from most of the crowd, Althea and Leto had taken refuge under the massive wooden table on which they had been eating their lunch. Their choice had proven effective, since the strange murderous phenomenon was occurring only on those who ran, bu
