"I already tried calling 911!"
"The line is dead! I can't get through!!"
"They have to come!"
"They'll explain what's happening!"
Penelope stood several steps behind the two men, watching the chaos unfold.
None of them understood.
Not yet.
The residents weren't seeing a monster.
They were seeing their neighbor.
A person they had probably passed in the elevator.
Someone they had greeted in the lobby.
Someone who had suddenly been shot in front of them.
They didn't know what the creature had become.
They didn't know what was happening outside.
They didn't know the world they had fallen asleep in no longer existed.
Kai slowly looked around the hallway.
His expression lost its usual humor.
"Guys..."
No one listened.
The shouting only grew louder.
"You can't just shoot people!"
"They need to be arrested!"
"Someone get security!"
"Where's the police?!"
"Why isn't anyone doing anything?!"
Then—
A woman near the back of the crowd suddenly screamed.
