"To the best friends I'll ever have!"
As soon as the bride-to-be raised her glass of sparkling wine to the light and the life and the laughter in the room - all here to celebrate her in her final day as an unmarried woman - the sickening snap of steel and crack of brick rolled in from outside, close outside. She glanced in the direction of the sounds, as did the rest of the party's guests. A couple muttered amongst themselves about construction and demotion scheduled to occur soon, and others whispered about rumors of 'country boys' come to terrorize 'city life' for... one reason or another. No one could quite agree on the details, but they could agree on one thing - whatever was happening, it was getting closer.