The Detective and The Inferno

For a moment, you won­der if The Thir­teen Idiots man­aged to curse thir­teen after all.

Then, you won­der if there are actu­ally thir­teen of them.

The flames are still mile-high. The rub­ble is still all around.

The city never got to grace the face of a map, and now it never would.

Or, per­haps, this would put it on the map for years to come.

The plane painted a mile-long stretch of flames across the city. The dam­age is so wide­spread, it must have bro­ken apart in-air.

Even then, it seems impossible.

Flight 13. Crashed one thir­teen. Thir­teen peo­ple on board.

No one seems too fussed over it, really. You’d have thought there’d be swarms of inves­ti­ga­tors, sus­pi­cions of ter­ror­ism, and all that.

Then again, you’re there. Per­haps every­one think’s that’s enough.

It isn’t.

You don’t care about the crash.

You only came to see the flames.

Such a majes­tic blaze, reach­ing into the sky. It twists. It turns. It roars.

It’s almost angry.

And now, you’ve decided. Which is unfor­tu­nate, as any deci­sion always makes way into dozens of indecisions.

For instance, how will you move it? You could put some into a bot­tle and take it with you, but you don’t think it would like being all cooped up.

Per­haps it could just fol­low you around? But there’s so much paper­work on your desk. It might get singed.

Then again, you hate paperwork.

Because you have decided one thing about the blaze:

It’s yours.

You still have no idea how to trans­port it.

But you know what to name it. What else could you?

Inferno.

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