Selendis hated how quickly this had happened. If they'd found the map sooner, would they have been able to prevent this? Or had finding it tipped off the Witches and sent things into motion? Shibusen may or may not have the answers, and she was going to have to deal with accepting that. She would continue to fight, but this would never be her war.

She took to the rooftops not too long after finding the streets to be a complete mess, and her presence wasn't going to calm anyone down. Everything was getting slick and icy thanks to the snow, but for the moment Selendis ignored it, scanning for real trouble. The Madness wavelength was heavy on her mind here, but her resonation with Karkat was strong enough this time. The trip to the Congo had been a small test, but this would either make them or break them.

The kishin were harder to spot here, most of them freshly turned from feasting on one another in all the panic. They still looked like people, not that that would make her pause, but a lot of innocents were still mixed up with them. The first one she spotted was half a block away, terrorizing what it thought its next meal ought to be.