The rain turned into fire.
Heidi's scream of shock and disbelief was the only description she could think of at the moment—an expression that seemed as logically disordered as her cry itself. She simply couldn't understand what she was seeing, couldn't comprehend what was happening. All she knew was that a torrential rain of fire was falling from the sky.
It was a matter of an instant.
The torrential downpour shrouding Prand turned into a cascade of fire from above in the blink of an eye, as if a dying sun was plummeting, its corona inverted, and the entire City-State transformed from a city in a storm to a vista of a city melting in living fire in less than a second.