The entire plain was covered with smoke, creating a giant, lying cloud near the ground, obscuring cities, aqueducts, villas, trees; at the end of this gray, dreadful plane, the city burned on the hills. However, the fire did not have the shape of a fiery column, as when a single, even the largest building burns. It was rather a long band, similar to a dawn glow. Above this band hung a wall of smoke, sometimes completely black, sometimes shimmering pink and bloody, compacted, inflated, dense, and swirling like a snake that shrinks and lengthens. The monstrous wall at times seemed to even cover the band. #fire #smoke #city #cloud #burning
