As she looked, a star blossomed in the glassy sky, a rosy fireball that sent thin cracks radiating outward from the point of impact on the dome as the muffled blast slapped her in the face with a warm wind. As the blast was doused by the sea, the fissures swiftly closed. Then faint rods of light lanced out from the base of the bubblecity into the murky distance, the feeble beams steadily increasing in brilliance until shimmering with unleashed power like tortured rainbows. More explosions appeared in the sea, and sirens started a banshee shriek over the city.