His face fell at her words. He knew what a fire was, but had no way of comprehending the totality of the destruction. It was a concept far too big for himself, which was how he began to understand just how much she had been through.
“Did anyone get hurt?” He asked shyly, a sudden weight dropping into his stomach as he waited for her answer. The only real answer he could glean was that someone had been killed in the fire and that was why she was so downtrodden, the fact that something far more sinister and insidious might be the cause was still far from his mind, but he was determined to get to the root of her problem.
