Firworks crash around them, pounding the ground like fat, rainbow-colored raindrops. Rain that burned. Rain that could kill them.

He tried to stay with the girl, but she was quite a bit faster, darting ahead like a rabbit as the main stretch of Frontierland flashed red. It wasn't long before she too, like Howard and Julie before her, disappeared, like a ghost into the smokey shadows of the night and once again, he was running alone.

Bleeding and choking and praying.