Bech
Fire-engines are still screaming into the site, their sirens adding to the cacophony of police, ambulances and the wail of alarms. In the background, against the cordon, the ‘general public’ stands gawping at the show, pointing and goggling, most with that ‘it happened to someone else’ look about them.
Vans screech up, “City TV News’, and the camera crew tumbles out, lenses gorging on the spectacle.
Bech watches all this with the semi-interested detachment of one who expected it all. But he’s not happy.
This is madness….
…. His obsession with this woman is going to put all our heads in the noose….
A column of smoke, black and bulging, spirals up from the Haswell office building, surging from the lower floors and now emerging from the upper floor windows too.
Flush them out….
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