Flash

Blood was streaming down her face like tears but more than that fresh dots of flecks of blood on her face rivers of pain tracing down the tracks of her cheeks.
The explosion was deafening, bright, blinding – airburst? She could not hear any screams, no longer could she hear their cries of pain.
Desperately she stretched out her Arms trying to hug her children, to hold them fast to her heart.
But all that were left were stumps, bright red, 朱， bleeding, burning 赤
He tried to tourniquet them. Was there any point? The red in her face was no longer inside her, it was on her, all over her.
Her eyes stared outward star struck by the blinding light. Could she even see?
They collapsed to the earth together.