[Sadge_enjoyer]: there were PEOPLE in that. there were people
[tower_dublin]: i can hear them screaming under it oh my god
[grimreaper_99]: this isn't a fight anymore this is a disaster
[viewer_0451]: nobody walks away clean from this. nobody
Across the city, O'Shea had not sat down.
The room behind him had gone from loud to quiet, the bad kind of quiet, everyone watching the same collapse on the same screens.
"Director." One of his people had a hand pressed flat on a desk. "It's a structural collapse now. People are dying. We have Enforcement staged four minutes out. Say the word."
"No."
"Sir, the public is watching us do nothing—"
"The public is watching two people who can level a building trade blows." O'Shea did not raise his voice. "Four minutes out puts your team in the rubble when the next column goes. I am not sending good officers to be the next clip."
He turned to Niamh.
"Where are we on the freeze?"
