"No! Alice--!"
Hearing her voice, Shane Winchester was the first to come to his senses. Ignoring the ongoing explosion of flames and his body covered with bloodstains and wounds, he plunged into the thick gunpowder smoke.
Keira Leaf stood still, stupefied, while Joshua Sulliven had been protecting her behind him.
But at this moment, she had forgotten her fear, forgotten the terror. She looked past his shoulders at the burning, incomplete corpse.
Joshua turned around, raised his hand gently to close her eyes, and held her in his arms.
"Joshua...Alice… did she, did she die?" Keira Leaf softly spoke, her eyes swelling with water mist, and then her eyelashes trembled lightly as she looked again in the direction of the pipeline.
Joshua was silent, did not speak, helped wipe the teardrops on her cheeks, and turned back to look at the charred corpse.
