Leon took in the scene unfolding before him, and something tightened in his chest.
Not a sharp spike of panic, nothing loud or dramatic. Just that quiet, treacherous squeeze that comes when your mind is still trying to rationalize what your eyes are seeing, while your body already knows the situation crossed the line a long time ago.
In the middle of the campus buildings stood a monster the size of a solid bunker, too big to belong here, like someone had dropped a chunk of an entirely different world between university halls. Heat shimmered off its massive body. Strange, hot steam rolled upward, warping the air and bending the view behind it.
