"Turn back."
At the moment she heard these words, Vanna simultaneously heard a tremendous noise, a continuous booming that defied description with language, intermixed with the tearing shrieks of flames. The sound didn't seem to come from any specific direction, but rather as if the entire City-State, even the whole world, was emitting this terrible sound.
In the midst of this headache-inducing din, she looked towards the figure standing behind the Doomsday Preacher—it was the "Captain Duncan" she had seen in her Dreamscape, but unlike the last time she had seen him, the figure that stood there now was completely enveloped in flames, its whole body presenting the form of a "ghost" with a spectral body.
