The Heavy Silence of Sunday
Sunday at Fire Station 19 usually smelled of strong coffee and the metallic tang of industrial cleaners. It was a day for “rig maintenance”—a slow, methodical ritual of polishing every inch of the massive red engines until they shone like rubies.
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Captain Elias, a veteran of thirty years with silver hair and hands calloused by a thousand ladders, was focused on the chrome bumper of Engine 19. He was humming a low tune, trying to ignore the heat shimmer rising from the asphalt outside. The station was unusually quiet; the city seemed to be holding its breath.
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Suddenly, the light in the massive bay door was eclipsed. A tiny silhouette stood there, framed by the blinding afternoon sun. He looked like a ghost against the glare.
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