Chaos Scream

A raw, startling burst of sound tears through the night air as the fugitives crash into the cobbled street, their panic sharpening into a single piercing scream that cuts through the gunfire and disorder. The sound is guttural and unrefined, an immediate human counterpoint to the cold efficiency of the police weapons. Stien and Galloway flinch at its suddenness, the scream lingering in ears long after the figures have fallen, a fleeting cry that becomes the first historical imperfection in Lydia Lytton's controlled erasure of witnesses.