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Skyfall (12) : Giant walls of clouds hover low above Destiny City, as if weighed down by the immense amount of water they are carrying. The air is cool, electric, and ominous, churning more like the ocean than the sky. And then, the clouds seem to collapse under their own weight. Dark masses spill from the sky in great, twisting columns of mist, stretching down towards the streets below. They descend like hands stretching from the heavens, enormous enough to swallow half a city block. Anyone caught within the descending clouds will find themselves surrounded by a frigid mist and powerful winds pushing down upon them. Visibility drops to almost nothing. The clouds spill over you, around you, like a waterfall, tugging at clothes and disrupting all sense of direction. Most people stumble out cold, soaked, and disoriented--and, sometimes, they don't even come out at the same place they went in. More than once, someone has disappeared in the cloud, only to wind up across town. Within minutes, the cloud pillars shrink, twisting like dying tornadoes, and drift back into the sky as though nothing happened at all.
The weather hadn't been great, but Basil found it difficult to sit still or stay home alone. The silence was deafeningly loud, and he left the house with a start after grabbing a raincoat that was still too big for him.
Walking through the night air, keeping his head down as he let that human glamour wash over him, he wandered aimlessly. The sound of rain seemed to be coming from somewhere ahead, though he couldn't see the sky from beneath the trees. At least not until a torrent of water came down around him, something a little too familiar as he tried not to inhale a mouthful of it. It was more misty this time, and as he stumbled forward and tried not to let his coat get ripped off by the wind, he tried to get out of it.
After a few minutes, he fell forward and was surprised that he wasn't in the forest anymore. The sidewalk beneath him wasn't very wet either, leaving him there blinking for a moment as he tried to figure out where he was. Lifting himself off the ground, at least partially, he tensed as he saw more of those clouds nearby. There weren't really many people out, at least not that he could see, but there were houses around, so he worried someone might come outside and get caught in something as he did.
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