That declaration triggered others.
A gust of wind suddenly swept across the street as another person demonstrated their ability.
A faint crackle of electricity followed.
Someone else lifted a chunk of stone slightly off the ground before letting it drop again.
Each display only deepened the divide.
Groups began forming instinctively and those with abilities clustering together, those without stepping back cautiously, watching as if they were suddenly less important in the new world order.
"I'm hungry," someone muttered again, far too casually for the situation, as if basic survival concerns still outranked reality-breaking phenomena.
Within minutes, more than a million people were no longer a unified group, but a fractured mass of competing voices.
Arguments erupted everywhere at once. Alliances formed in whispers and collapsed just as quickly.
Some people cried. Others laughed in disbelief.
