Everything was burning, fires spitting ash and soot into the sky.

“WHY!?” They screamed, bloody nails digging through the blackened rubble. Tears streaking clean lines down their face as they kept digging, frantic wails ripping from their throat.

“NO NO NO! P-please.” They screamed to everyone and no-one, shaking and spent, beyond exhausted.

“please.”

After a while they stopped, shoulders slumped and sobbing hysterically, trying to wipe tears off their face but only succeeding into smearing the spot into a thick black paste.

They pulled back their hands, dropping them in their knees and letting the world go blurry, as the roaring fires died to a numbing silence.