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.