Time had stopped completely around them in a way that defied every natural law James knew.
The NPC soldiers remained motionless in mid-movement like living statues frozen in place. One soldier who had been falling was suspended in mid-air as if gravity itself had forgotten to pull him down.
The smoke from burning buildings hung suspended in the air like solid black pillars that shouldn't exist. Blood droplets floated motionless where they had been spraying from wounds, defying physics completely.
The only things that could still move were the five team members and the angel descending from above.
Finn and Kael regained consciousness as the angel came closer, their eyes opening just in time to see golden wings spreading across the sky. Finn groaned while sitting up from where the ogre had dropped him, his hand going to his ribs that should have been broken.
Kael pushed himself to his knees while looking around in confusion at the frozen world.
