CRACK ! We run, faster than ever before. i feel as though my legs are lead and i will be weighed down, defenseless against the storm. It started a week ago, going from small thunderstorms to the oceans swelling and overflowing onto land. then the lightning came. the cracking, purple and yellow lightning, able to kill you in a milisecond.
Ellie is running next to me, and then the unthinkable. She dies. The lighting got her. I watched it. It was building up, chasing us almost. And then, crack. she was gone. I screamed and wailed but ran faster than ever. She was dead. How was I going to go on? But I knew I had to. I had to for Robby. Finally I reached the cave on the top of the mountain. It had a boulder that was easy to push across to make shelter. I sat with Robby, water dripping off our faces, mixed with blood and tears. We watched. We watched our town die. We watched the lightning destroy everything we had ever known. It was horrific but at the same time beautiful and entrancing. It was nature.