The flames engulfed me, a raging fireball like molten lava, searing into my skin burning and destroying everything that made up who I was. My body gone, crumbling into dust in a second, but I was too racked in pain to notice. Notice that I should already be dead.
Yet, here I was.....
I coughed, wheezing for breath as consciousness took hold of me once more. Soot, I thought I saw, as my vision cleared when I remembered to open my eyes. A thick layer of soot covered everything, and as I stirred, it kicked up more dust into the air, making it more difficult to breathe.
Soot...
That was....Important....how was it important? What was the purpose of soot?
I pushed up, my vision blurring. For a second I thought I saw green scaly claws where my hands were. But that would be impossible. I got to my feet, barely able to keep my knees from sending me back to the ground, as I staggered to a blackened wall, half destroyed, to lean against it. More soot....soot....from....a fire.
I ran a hand over my head, frowning, as I felt no hair there, almost it felt like scales...but no, my head was smooth. Fire....I'd been in a fire....to...my thoughts skittered unable to pin anything down.
This...
This wasn't right.
I remembered burning, but I felt...fine. I couldn't tell until I could clean myself off, but...I didn't feel a spot of injury anywhere on me.
A fire....me within...me burning....yet.....not.
My strength waned suddenly, and I found myself coughing again as my collapse kicked up a fresh pile of dust into the air.
How was I alive?
-Inspiration from watching Big Hero 6. Where Tadashi runs into the burning building.
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