Zlaw’s Echo

There is no way anything was able to survive this. The explosion was so big, its shock wave so intense, that there cannot possibly be anything left standing in its wake. But still, we persevere in our rescue efforts. We simply have to make sure. What if there were somebody buried under the rubble, somehow sheltered by an improbable and fortuitous congruence of destroyed architecture? What if they are somewhere out there, under all this waste, screaming for help, knocking as hard as they can on every surface they can get their hands on, praying and crying to whatever higher power there may or may not be that someone, anyone finds them? It has not been long since the incident. We do not even know what caused it yet, nor where it originated. Is anyone responsible? Could somebody really wish for such destruction? Or maybe be careless enough to not take every precaution so it would not happen? The best case scenario is really that this was one of those terrible catastrophes that could not...