Fireworks shoot up into the sky as Hemlock Vale is consumed in the blaze. The whizzing lights and loud crackles almost distract from the devastating inferno as it devours the landscape. Poms of red, yellow, and blue fireworks launch into the air to explode in the night sky.
You and Dr. Marquez join the few remaining survivors on a trek to the island's southern reach to take refuge in a crumbling lighthouse. As you watch the inferno from a smudged window, a thread of thin, gray light shoots up from the village center, then winks out. A small, phosphorescent light plummets back into the blaze like a fallen star.