By the time Ralph and Director Lockwood learned about the news online, it had already been trending for an hour.

At that moment, Ralph had just completed surgery and managed to stop the bleeding from his severed arm. He hadn’t had a chance to catch his breath when his phone rang urgently, its shrill sound cutting through the silence like a death knell.

The events from last night had been overwhelming, and Ralph still hadn’t fully recovered from the dizziness and ...