The sky had looked weird for most of the afternoon.

Not storm's coming weird. No, no. Addy had lived here long enough to know what a normal storm looked like. No, this was absolutely Destiny City Weird.

The clouds sat so low they almost looked heavy, rolling over each other like they were trying very hard not to fall out of the sky. She'd caught herself glancing up at them more than once on her walk home, mostly because they looked deeply concerning and also because she had developed the survival instinct of keeping an eye on anything magical enough to potentially ruin her day.

It was a good instinct.

Usually.

"...You better stay up there," she muttered, pointing at the clouds like they might actually listen.

They did not.

One second they were overhead.

The next they were coming down.

Not rain.

The whole damn cloud.

"Oh, you've got to be kidding me."

People scattered before the first column hit the street. Someone yelled. Somebody else abandoned a bike. Addy only had enough time to think that she should probably transform before the wall of freezing mist swallowed her whole.

Cold hit first. Frigid, to the bone cold that made your teeth chatter hard enough to chip each other. Cold enough to suck the energy right out.

Then wind.

It shoved down hard enough that she nearly ate pavement before she caught herself, arms pinwheeling like one of those inflatable tube men outside a car dealership. Her scarf was ripped from her neck in a flash of color before she lost sight of it.

"This is bullshit!"

The complaint disappeared into the fog almost immediately.

She couldn't see anything.

Not buildings.

Not the sidewalk.

Not even her own feet.

Which was rude, honestly.

She took a cautious step forward.

Then another.

The wind pushed her sideways.

Or maybe backwards.

She had no idea anymore.

The mist pulled at her jacket and hair from every direction at once until she couldn't tell which way she was facing. She tried listening for traffic.

Nothing.

People.

Nothing.

Just wind.

Another cautious step.

This was exactly how people ended up in Narnia. The thought made her grimace as much as she possibly could into the aggressive winds surrounding her.

If she walked into a lamppost and some aggressively Christian lion started talking to her, she was going to be so annoyed.

Addy kept moving anyway because standing still felt significantly dumber than wandering blindly through magical weather. At least one of those options had a chance of getting her home.

Eventually the wind stopped trying to shove her around.

The fog began to thin.

Light filtered back through the gray until the cloud twisted upward again, peeling away from the ground like it had never been there in the first place.

Addy blinked a few times.

"...Huh."

She wasn't downtown anymore.

She wasn't even close.

Instead, she was standing on the sidewalk in front of her house. Addy looked up at it and then back down the street, the to the building once more.

"...Well that's convenient."

It took another second before the practical part of her brain caught up.

"Wait."

She definitely had not walked twenty-something blocks while blind.

She stared up at the clouds, which had already drifted lazily back overhead like they hadn't just kidnapped her for five minutes.

"...Thanks?"

The word came out suspiciously.

She wasn't convinced magical weather deserved her thanks.

Still, she dug her keys out of her pocket and climbed the steps to her house, soaked through and thoroughly over whatever today had been.

Honestly?

Getting magically abducted and dropped off at her front door was probably in the top ten least inconvenient things Destiny City had ever done to her. Which really said more about Destiny City than it did about the clouds.

As she reached her front door, she noticed something sparkling in the sun. Another charm. Interesting, but she had no time to contemplate, so she scooped it up and went inside.