[CRITICAL WARNING!]
Aiva's holographic red alerts abruptly spammed his retinal vision, flashing with blinding, desperate urgency.
[Fatal Nether-Frost storm approaching! Impact in thirty seconds! The temperature inside the storm is absolute zero. Find shelter immediately or you will freeze solid!]
The very air around them seemed to crackle and warp with the impending, unnatural freeze.
"Run!" Leo barked, his voice tearing through the rising, deafening gale.
He didn't wait for Katherine to process the lethal threat or for her to willingly move. He lunged forward like a striking beast, grabbed her firmly by her slender wrist, and sprinted heavily through the knee-deep, treacherous snow.
Katherine stumbled almost immediately, her legs already feeling stiff and violently numb from the biting cold, but Leo's terrifying, monstrous physical strength afforded no room for weakness. He practically dragged her through the towering drifts, her boots carving deep trenches in the powder.
