agony, despair. no name. no gender. no identity. only pain. not alone. others around. chorus of pain. smell of flesh burning, buried in that smell. fire stripping away everything. pain, unimaginable pain. no name, no gender, no identity. reaching through a mass of screams. sensing a presence. burning agony, screams for release, begging for the end. no end, no name, no gender, no identity. only pain, unbearable pain. something, someone close by. freedom from this fire. others begging for mercy an end to this horror. he passes over, crushing outstretched hands that turn to cinders. pleas for mercy, cries of innocence, flames burning, unbearable pain. she calls out his name. he turns....