I stared at the small space they left me."Steve, don't dawdle," my wife said. "Get in. We have to go."I shuffled around the back of the car to the rig...t back door. When I climbed inside, four pairs of teenage eyes were staring at me. To fit, I pushed up against the girls in the middle and then closed the door. Then I placed my hands in my lap and stared forward.My wife turned on the car and drove off. But she immediately hit the brake which jostled us in the back and caused a few giggles."I. ’ ‘So why aren’t we buried now?’ ‘Stations and the approaches to stations are wrapped in steel, so even if there’s a collapse it only takes out tunnels, not stations.’ ‘So I think what I get from all that, is if I’d slowed the train down, we’d be buried and crushed.’ ‘Um… no. Buried and smeared. We’d have spun off the track in the collapse and smashed into volumes of stone. Human bodies turn to jelly in those conditions.’ I smiled shakily at the controls. ‘No one’s ever died in a 14-B, though.. "I ran over to them I couldn't see Amanda anywhere, "What's going on where's Amanda?"Angela who was stood by the side of the woman on the stretcher turned to me and said, "The other ambulance took her away, Joan thinks they did it by force." I'm sure it's just a misunderstanding she just exited a burning building she could have had bad burns and they need to rush her to hospital," suggested one of the medics."She doesn't burn she's a fire elemental," I said."Who are you miss?" asked the. Elsewier," responded Doug, "he did give us the formula andteach us the words of power. We had to get rid of him anyway, let's notmake it personal."That's when I became terrified. I did not know what I could do and I fledout into the darkness, eventually finding my way back to where I hadparked. I looked a final time at Peter's car and quickly left. I feltawful abandoning him. But I also felt awful that he had been the one whohad wanted to steal my life and make me a thing for only him. I did.