Chapter 2 - Rubble

The light subsided after what seemed like years and years. I feel the spark of a million fires dance across my body as I struggle to open my eyes. It is strangely quiet - all that remains is the scent of ash and fire and… rotting flesh? I painfully pick myself up and open my eyes to see what awaits me - Rubble, buildings on fire, people all around me, dead. The flowers I once had are practically a pile of ash now. I scream out in terror and searing pain, but nobody answers. It then hits me. Everyone is dead. All of the life around me is gone.

“Agnngggh– HELP!! SOMEONE, PLEASE!!!” I cry out. Nobody is there to help me. “HhgHELP- HELP!!! PLEASE, SOMEONE–” I can’t stand up anymore and collapse back down to the ground. Nobody is coming to save me. Nobody is left to save me.

I don’t know how long it’s been until I decide I should get away from this area despite my aching, burned, and wounded body. The fire continues to spread, turning corpses and what used to be buildings into ash. Picking myself up, painfully slowly but surely, I limp out into the distant wasteland. Unsure of where I’m going, the once recognizable city I lived in now an impassable, unrecognizable mess of rubble.

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