Smokes and Shadows: What lies beneath

When the explosion hit, it wasn't just a blast.
It was a message.
Four thousand miles away and exactly simultaneously, a fireball erupted under Manhattan's Lexington Avenue Line-killing twenty-nine and injuring over two hundred. The President was awakened mid-sentence during a NATO briefing. London's Prime Minister was evacuated to an undisclosed bunker. Sirens echoed across both cities as phones buzzed, social feeds lit up, and fear gripped the world like a vice.
But that was only the beginni...