Fire Intro

Gangs have their streets, superheroes have their cities.  Every hero has their territorial pissings, but not all range above "vigilante" status.  Fires happen.  Earthquakes happen.  Sharknados on occasion (maybe?).  And who can quell such things?  Flash, Superman, Green Lantern... even Batman could money something up to fix the inevitable.  But Nightwing?  I mean, what the hell?  Batman has his own problems, he ain't going to the neighboring city to help fight the fires.  I made this excerpt as an intro to a possible storyline where a fire breaks free and begins to ravage a city.  (INSERT SUPERHERO) would be evacuating the immediate areas, trying to stay a step ahead of the out-of-control maw behind them, and eventually piece together that this case is one of arson.  Not everyone leaves a riddle to mark their handiwork, so it would take real detective elbow grease to catch the pyro behind a city-wide panic.

Anyway, here is the intro from the arsonist's point of view:

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This is the city you once knew.

The one you lived within the thick of, all its bricks and steel and mortar and told yourself “At least this will never come to pass”.

The fire beats deep within your bones and the cries you roar are drowned within the hot ash and broken cries of a thousand others.

The bricks blacken and the streets turn white from the overturned ash of a million stampeding feet and the smoke never settles for the fire refuses to have its hunger sated.

Smoke curls around every street lamp and limb of the tree to invite the city in.

People push and shove against the walls of flesh that crowd their way from getting out of the jungle they live in.

The flames don't get louder. They are content with their own being and they dance and celebrate the miracle of being free and alive.

Who are you to judge the flame?