Exhale
“What do you mean, they’re falling?”
“They’re just… dropping out of the sky.”
As if to prove my point, another bird struck the roof of a taxi before tumbling onto the road. Its driver slammed on the brakes, causing the cars behind him to erupt into a chorus of angry horns. Cyclists abandoned their bikes, people ran for cover, and somewhere below, a child began to cry.
“Are you sure?” Emma asked, her voice tighter now.
“I’m looking at them.”
More sirens joined the ones already echoing through the city, each one seeming closer than the last. The runner I’d seen earlier was nowhere in sight, swallowed by the growing crowd as people pointed upward, trying to understand what they were witnessing.