Pāhonoa te oro

Branches snapped. The fire collapsed into sparks. The forest erupted into chaos. Billy was thrown back. Sam hit the ground hard. Sarah screamed as heat slammed through the clearing. Jessie grabbed her, pulling her behind a log. Everything was fire and smoke. Noise and destruction. Another explosion hit deeper in the bush. Then another. The world didn’t feel real anymore. When the noise finally stopped… Silence returned. Smoke drifted through the trees. The camp was gone. Burned. Broken. Gone.