Quickly Eran seized her and pulled her down behind a huge boulder.
"Don't look." He whispered. "Just, don't look!"
He couldn't explain why he knew it was so important that she didn't look towards Sodom; he just knew it. The earth was shaking violently beneath them, Eran held Adina as close as he could without crushing her delicate figure; she looked at him with fear in her eyes.
"What's happening?" She asked, her voice shaking.
He had no answer so he simply sat there, comforting the girl in his arms, all the while feeling a great surge of gratefulness that she'd made it out; now that he knew her, and loved her, his heart stopped by the pure thought that she could have died before he'd even met her.
Neither of them knew for how long it went on. The sky went dark so there was no looking at the sun to determine the passing of the time, the only thing they could do was sit there, cuddled together, and wait.
"Eran, what is it? What are those lights in the sky? And the noise! I'm scared!"
"Don't be Kezia. It's just thunder. It'll be over."
That night he'd known what was going on; he'd been able to comfort his sister. Now, there was nothing he could do. He hated it. Adina was shaking almost as violently as the ground and there was nothing he could do to help her calm her fear, why couldn't he help her, really help her? He'd been unable to stop the rape of her, and now he was unable to stop her fear. The only thing he could do, they could do, was to pray vigorously that it would end, it didn't.
Something was falling from the sky. Whirling towards Sodom then exploding, making the ground shake even more than before, the first thing had hardly fallen before the next came, and the next, one after another in an endless fiery rain.
"I hope Lot and his family made it out of the city." Adina said, looking at the sky with a worried look in her eyes.
"Who're Lot?" Eran asked, despite the fear happy to have found something almost normal to talk about.
"Just a man who sometimes helped my father. He was really nice, same with his wife and their two daughters. They were somewhat older than me." there was a brief pause. "It was also him who gave us the news of my brother's death."
The ground was shaking. Something was raining over Sodom and, they thought they could see in the distance, Gomorrah as well but hidden behind their rock they were safe, as safe as it was possible to be in a situation like this they presumed. Whatever it was, whatever power had been unleashed upon the two cities they knew they would make it through. Eran of Gomorrah and Adina of Sodom, they knew it; fate couldn't have brought them together for it to end like this.
Suddenly a great light illuminated the sky somewhere outside the city, blinding them momentarily.
"What was that?" Adina's voice was shaking.
"I don't know. Maybe a lightning. Maybe, just maybe this is just a really bad lightning storm."
But, as if to show once and for all that this wasn't just a lightning storm, a great piece of molten rock suddenly landed right beside the rock they had thought to be a safe place. Wasting no time they jumped to their legs and started running; out of the valley. Unfortunately they were heading straight towards a steep rock wall which would be impossible to climb, even if they weren't under an unnatural rain of molten rocks and something else, which stank.
"Eran. Look. The animals."
Looking the direction Adina was pointing Eran saw something which made his heart bolt with joy; all the animals were fleeing the valley; they had somehow, thanks to their amazing instincts, known what was about to happen; even though the valley would be destroyed all life wouldn't be lost, and what more; there was a way out.
"Come on." He took her hand and together they ran towards the herd. None of the animals sensed the two strangers in their midst; enabling Eran and Adina to run for the small exit of the valley along with the great herd.
As soon as they were out they parted away from the group and sank exhausted to the ground. Falling asleep in each others' arms.