I stared as the dirt around the enormous hive began to shake. Then like the Bifrost from a Marvel movie, white hot flames descended from the sky and smashed into the structure, it seemed to last for an eternity, as the structure smoked then disappeared, and a plume of black smoke rose from the crater being left. The ground collapsed around the structure as the underground tunnels burned, melted, and collapsed. Finally, the stream of white-hot flames raining from the sky slowed to a trickle, and then ended.

With the end of the flames came the end of... whatever had come over me.

I stood, and my head spun. I...