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As the apartment tenants continued to gather around her in the complex lobby, Mari Lin's eyes were searching for something, [b]anything[/b] to lock onto through the glass of the window. Try as she might, there was absolutely nothing to see beyond the dense mass of grey fog that had just appeared to engulf their city. A fog seemingly straight out of a horror movie - one which unfortunately they were all now being forced to take part in. The idea that this could have just been the will of Mother Nature herself had already been pushed out of Mari's mind thanks to the unmistakable sounds of chaos and human terror that popped off at random intervals like weird fireworks.

It seemed that just minutes ago she was chopping up some leafy greens for dinner in the kitchen, blissfully unaware of what was happening outside as her curtains were drawn for the evening. Now here she stood with her neighbors, most of whom had just watched Alton run out to secure the gates like a hero, never to return. Or maybe he would... Just not as a human?

Mari shook this thought away as the crowd began to address each other. She peeled her eyes from the windows and scanned the gathering, recognizing a few faces and some acquaintances. There was that male from somewhere in the building that she had never really interacted with that was (understandably) freaking out, and the mother and son duo that lived on the floor below her. [color=#CCC189]"Invaded?"[/color] she almost scoffed, chewing on her bottom lip out of habit. [color=#CCC189]"Doesn't make sense. How could any human have brought us all this fog?"[/color] 

Then again, anything was possible. Though Mari's poker face proved very effective, her heart rate was climbing slowly and steadily as the inevitable paranoia and concern for people outside of the complex settled in the pit of her stomach. Her gaze strayed down to the little one, unable to imagine what could be going through his mind. In a small attempt to lighten the mood, she continued, [color=#CCC189]"Invaded by aliens, maybe. Let's just hope they're really nice and let us play on their spaceship."[/color] She raised her eyebrows at him, hoping to convey some version of optimism with her expression, before folding her arms across her chest and looking back out at nothing. 

[color=#CCC189]"Well, going outside is not an option. Poor Alton..."[/color]