Nothing was unusual about today. Just one going about their day as one does. The marketplace seems busier than ever, buzzing like a hive of wasps freshly poked with a stick. However, in all the dull colors, between the clothes, the overcast sky, and the dust being kicked up from the cobbled streets, something sticks out to you.

You don’t have much time to dwell on it though, as the thing that catches your eye swiftly slams into you, letting a glass bottle fall free and shatter on the ground. The cork rolls away, leaving a dark red liquid like blood, yet emitting a yellow vapor that creeps across the ground where it landed.

“Eek!” The strange girl that drops it squeals, kicking away the shards of the glass bottle. “Don’t touch that, it’s dangerous!” Wordlessly, the crowd around you two parts to avoid the apparently dangerous puddle on the ground that it seeping between the bricks and trickling away.

“Oh, I’m so, so, so sorry…” She says, looking down at the fractured piece of glass on the ground like she’d just dropped her own son. “I’m so sorry… I didn’t see you there, and I just…” She trails off, wiping a few errant strands of green hair from her face and to the side.