An Explosion

Point Zero: 1 The Explosion

Story: The man silently moved over to another part of the room. Kit
realised that there was a computer screen on the wall that was the size
of the Mona Lisa. With a touch of a button, the screen came into focus
and a large picture of the man himself appeared. By it's side was a
golden bird with sparkling rubies for eyes. As the red-haired boy
muttered something about height, resolution and pixies, a deadly
scarlet time appeared on the screen destroying the man's smiling face.
The time was counting down from twenty seconds. The boy Will rummaged
in the desk and though Kit tried to hurry him up by telling him to
press the green button, it was no use. Ten seconds... did his mother
know that he loved her... eight seconds...was there enough time to get
them all out? Six seconds... he ferried the girls across to the door...
three...two...one.

An explosion hit him with immense force. Kit felt the strength of the
nails dig into him and his final thought was that, yet again, he had
failed to prevent it...