fallenraine

Fire. Fire everywhere. It consumed the brush first, sweeping along the forest floor to ignite the dry tinder and twigs. It ignited bushes, creeping up their vines and leaves to engulf them in a roaring blaze. Greedily the flames licked the trees, and soon those too were like horrendous beacons in the smoky night. Birds flew maddened through the hot haze, disoriented by the darkness that contrasted the bright burning around them. Mice, shrews, vole, squirrels, they all raced along the ground, coming to halts when they discovered yet another path was blocked by the inferno. They never found one that wasn't. Deer crashed through blazing underg