Chapter 84: Dune Complex Fire
Fire always looked bigger than it really is. Even though only the penthouse apartment on the Dune Complex was burning, it looked like the entire high-end building was on fire.
There was a funnel-shaped tornado of fire rising from the roof and even though Ravi was on the ground far from the fire, the heat from the fire was sizzling enough for him to feel it.
The police did not fight fires but they provided backup. Fire attracted crowds and crowds acted stupid at times like this. From trying to take pictures to trying to help but making matters worse.
"Someone is there. I saw someone in the window." A man screamed as he grabbed Ravi’s arm. "Why are you standing here, go and help?"
What happened to your leg, Ravi wanted to say but Arlen pulled the man away, pushing him back behind the tape.
"The firefighters are on it." There was sweat on his brow, he had been directing the residents of the building to the paramedics who they got first aid care for smoke inhalation, although most of them were alright.
The fire strangely enough did not spread but concentrated on the penthouse, so other residents of the building were all right.
"He can just be seeing things. The smoke bends your perception." Arlen explained to Ravi as a way of saying that he should not take offense to him.
"I am not quick-tempered."
Arlen nodded, he tried to smile but it was a weak one, he was tired. Unlike he who had just been controlling the crowd, Arlen had been running up and down. He had already made three trips to the hospital but the last trip might have been useless, when the bodies from the penthouse were carted out, they were already charred black.
The same energy in the Grill was here, this was the work of a mutant. But that was the only thing that Ravi knew which was almost nothing.