Now that the robot had turned aside, Sirius also turned his attention to the falling debris. He didn't know how to deal with the collapsing buildings but this he could tackle. He idly wondered if the buildings signified the collapse of his own fragile mind before deciding that even his subconscious mind couldn't be bothered with metaphors.

He raised his wand and pointed it above him at the pieces of falling debris. He didn't have the time to speak so he thought arresto momentum and the debris hovered in the air for a moment before slowly floating down. It was easy. The trouble was that was it hadn't been as strong as he'd anticipated and there was still plenty of debris falling to earth.

Time to deal with the source of the problem.

He turned to Mellie. "Do you have any idea what's going on?"

Speak to me, oh representation of every woman I've ever met. Wait. He wasn't going to buy into the whole metaphor thing. Right.