Pallida Mortem Omnes

[LePew]

Normally The place wasn't burnt to the ground.

The fields laid as charred black sheets cut away from each other by the dirt roads that stood as the only thing untouched.

The great silos of grain were torches, still burning brightly as the grain acted as fuel. The warehouse was a ruin, crossbeams blown outwards, most of the roof collapsed with only a few walls remaining to hold what was left.

Death rose above the smell of burnt wheat. The sickening smell of burn flesh was all around. The farmers laid dead mostly where they stood. Almost everyone died instantly from the massive explosion of wheat, and those who didn't died due to lack of air. Children in the fields were blackened corpse, not even able to run far away enough. One worker, presumably working on a higher level of the silos, jumped down to avoid the flames running upwards towards him. He impaled himself on a small fence surrounding the silos. Another person who worked at the conveyor belts leading into the silos somehow got himself caught in the system, which dragged him into the small cleaning and processing shoot. The belt was covered in blood and rags of his clothes.

A man laid dead in one of the pathways, his back burnt to a crisp. His body laid on it's side, and a small patch of the dirt path wasn't touched. A young boy stood there, a small burnt cigar handing from his hands.

He was alive. Around him, the world was dead. The cigar burnt out long ago and burnt the boy's hand, but he took no heed. He stood there, watching the great fires, the distant calls of help, the way the bodies burnt.

Eventually, a rescue crew came to put out the massive fire and help those who were injured. The only one who was found alive was the boy in the path, who never responded calls. One of the crew members fished out the boy's ID card. His name was Pierre LePew, son of one of the workers at the farm. Looking over at the dead man beside the boy, they guessed that to be his father.

The boy was led to a hospital, where he continued to be a mute and not respond to anything. He stared blankly at something far away.

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