Minan looked around astonished. He had been away for just one evening, and now that he was back he was confronted with the new reality of his hometown. During the night the whole forest had caught on fire, large columns of smoke were rising up in the sky as the town people still carried full and empty buckets of water forwards and backwards to kill the last remains of the giant bonfire the woods had turned into. This whole scene startled him greatly, seeing as he had been marching along the road from the city to his town with a raging desire to confront himself with the man who had sent him on an empty search and had made him waste precious time and now there was a new, bigger problem to face. Now other thoughts came to his mind: how far had the fire spread? Did it reach anyody's home? Did it reach his home?