CHAPTER 58Once again the sense of someone shaking her brought Mara back to consciousness, only this time the hand was smaller and the shaking was a little gentler. Mara’s eyes fluttered open, and she felt something hard poking into the back of her neck. Slowly pushing herself up, she looked back and realized she was holding onto the bottom step leading up to the front porch of the house. While the front wall of the house behind the porch remained intact, orange and yellow light danced from the windows. At Mara’s side, Hannah sat on the ground, pointing up in the air.
“It looks like bumblebees,” she said.
Mara blinked, trying to clear her eyes. After attempting to wipe them with the sooty back of her hand, then thinking better of it, she said, “I think it’s just ashes and embers floating
