The smell of whiskey and wine mixed together in the air above the tents, as well as in the stomachs of the five young people sitting on the dry earth. The brand new and sparkling portable CD player was being put to good use, playing rock songs non stop.
They were drinking so much that they weren't sober long enough to be hungover, and frustrating Marianna constantly. She decided to walk down to the beach to take calm down and sober up. She walked through a gap in the sand dunes, with the sandy ground melting under her feet. Across the darkly coloured water, the sun was disappearing from Sweden for the day. Marianna felt the romance of watching a sunset on the beach, and sat down to absorb the sight.
As she sat on the sand, another ball of light appeared in the sky – rising instead of sinking beneath the horizon. It looked like someone had lit a match and just tossed it into the air, still burning. The orange and yellow flames stood out against the red sunset, and if her selfish friends couldn't see this, they were missing something. Then it started sinking like the sun, only it was not sinking towards the horizon, it was moving towards the beach!
Marianna gasped as she jumped up, the fiery thing was coming closer to the water's surface and to the land. She knew that the only thing to do was run, as fast as her legs could manage – she was determined not to be hit by an unidentified burning thing whilst admiring nature. As she ran, the thing burned away and came closer to the beach until she heard a loud splash behind her. She couldn't bring herself to look, she just kept running until both herself and the giant wave reached the tent.
