Chaos is a strange medicine; it makes the brave panic and the watchful blind. Chaos makes guards abandon their posts to save their own skins. Chaos breaks locks that no key can turn.

  So I gave the city a chaos it would never forget.

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  Fire spread like a living creature. One spark became two, two became ten, and soon the rooftops themselves seemed to breathe flame.

  Alarms screamed. Windows shattered. The night turned red.

  In that madness, amidst the smoke and the shouting, my friend finally reached the girl he loved.

  My plan had worked perfectly.

  I had played God with a box of matches.

  But that night had another plan waiting for me.