Incendiary

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The fires didn't end the world. They just ended the illusion that it could be saved.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Whole cities fell in days. Flames swallowed streets homes and lives with nothing more than a hiss and a crackle. In the ashes someone had to stay behind - to contain it clean it pretend it could be controlled. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>That's where the Spatesmiths came in. We were supposed to be the line between order and collapse.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>We told ourselves the world still needed saving. That we could rebuild something from the ruins.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But the fires weren't the real enemy. It was the fear. The doubt. The slow grinding realization that survival doesn't mean anything when there's nothing left worth surviving for.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Every day the lines between right and wrong blur a little more. Orders get followed because it's easier than asking questions. We put out the flames erase the evidence and move on - until one day there's nothing left to move toward.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In a world built on ash and silence every step forward feels like sinking deeper into the ruins.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>We fight to keep going.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>We fight because we remember.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>We fight to try and forget.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And somewhere out there the fires are still burning.</span></p><p></p><p></p>