Superheated glass shattered and fell in sparkling rain to the street below, gouts of flame roaring afterward. The drone shook, whipped about in the torrential draft from the shattered window. A female figure, shrouded in living fire, dove screaming out of the shattered window. The buffeting air as she fell fanned the flames to a fury before she hit the concrete far, far below.

Compensate. Pan up. Shift focus.

Two shadows dance a death struggle inside a smoky office-suite. One small, one large, both inhumanly fast. They moved in rapid circles around one another, trading blows with blurred intensity. Blood is smeared across spider-webbed glass.

Zoom out. Pan down.

Police cruisers on the scene, meeting a sporadic evacuation of corporate refugees. Clumps of tiny figures give the smoldering corpse a wide berth.

Pan up. Shift focus. Search.

The fighters are lost in a heavy shroud of black smoke.

Zoom out. Pan down.

An officer emerging from her black police cruiser, taking control, barking orders.