When the two lifelong friends parted company Will returned to his small flat and sat down in an armchair to visit his favourite place. His mind was many years younger than his body and he had no trouble in recalling and reliving events from the past.
His memories always started at the night that had since become known as the Second Great Fire of London; hours of the city burning around him. The calmness and stoicism of the whole country couldn"t lift him from his pain on the night he"d tried to protect Jane"s shaking body with his own, fighting in vain to be stronger than forces that brought buildings to their knees. His body was no match for the destructive power that could bring down an office block, reduce masonry to sand and flatten a house of bricks to a house of cards.
So many home
