One hundred and twenty-four thousand explosives and incendiary devices were thrown down on the city’s head, twenty-nine around St. Paul’s alone, one striking a direct hit and lodging in the cathedral’s dome. The area destroyed by these bombs was greater than that of the first Great Fire, and the casualty list was higher, too, 160 civilians and 14 firefighters. But Churchill ordered the cathedral saved, and a group of volunteers fought back the firestorm that swept across the capital and halted it at God’s door. Every other building in the vicinity of St. Paul’s was obliterated.

One of the men who worked tirelessly to save the church was a man named Wentworth, a simple dockworker who happened to find himself in the thick of the action. Later, he would tell his son about the night of his heroic endeavors, just as Edna and Lily told their stories to you. But his son was far from a simple man, nor was he heroic. Not even much of a storyteller, though he did once mention this to you. He was working on the garden at the time, listening in as Edna told her tale.

He was a coward, a bully, just another sad, pathetic creature. The world should not mourn him.

You feel as though you’ve come full circle. But none of this has helped at all, has it? What have you achieved? Other than to add the screams of Wentworth and Felbridge to the other. To Gerald. Is this really what he wanted? No. You know what he wanted, what he still wants. He wants peace. An end to it. He whispers a name to you. Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler. You should have finished it last night at Wentworth’s house. Or before that even, at Tyler’s flat. That’s two opportunities he’s given you. Now it’s third time lucky.

Now it’s up to you to finish it for him.

POSTED BY thefirewatcher AT 6:24 AM

119 COMMENTS

DonkeyHoTay said:-

Yeah, man! You fucking stick it to em #firewatching

Nof***inway said . . .

If I want a fuckin histry lesson I gone back to school.

NiceCuppa said . . .

You think this is history but it could happen again. Open your eyes and look what the Toruies are ddoing to the country!!

NiceCuppa said . . .

Tories* and doing* Lol!!!

ActualJeffJones said . . .

Anyone know where I can get an original Klingon bat’leth from Star Trek TNG?

Kaygirlstarchild said:-

Are you single?

Fifitrixibelle said:-

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The paramedics take away Joe Wentworth in a matter of minutes, but before they depart Paul snatches bandages and antiseptic from them, and cleans and dresses the burns on the back of Tyler’s neck. Only then does Tyler realize he was actually on fire. Paul wasn’t hitting him, he was beating the flames out with his sleeves. It feels like sunburn, only a lot worse. He can smell his own singed hair.