[b]Hsien![/b]

The biggest threat is obviously Xingtian. Every step they take is full of menace. Remember the bit where they peeled open steel doors with their gauntlets cracking open that bank? They’re also the cause of the fire that’s threatening this entire level of the Providence Tower. Fire is one of the five noble elements, but beyond the risk to the upper levels of the tower, which contain more residential areas and businesses (and some important government offices once you get past the fortieth floor), there’s also the risk of this fire damaging the structural integrity of the building.

Sky Gate City has (as far as you know) never had a skyscraper collapse. There’s a lot of failsafes and safety mechanisms built into every building in the city, to avoid the kind of corner-cutting tragedies that were common in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but water isn’t effective against this ghost-fueled fire.

Here’s an extra bit of intuition for being a good girl with such adorable triangles: this feels like a shell game, but Xingtian’s not the dealer, they’re the cup. Or possibly the table.