Game Of Jeopardy

Surrounded-on-all sides by hellfires. Your castle—islanded, unapproachable the sun is an added cinder just visible, a landscape changed by eucalyptus, pyres falling like pylons among the living and the dead. All things scrambled in defence; self-survival, no time for misgiving while fire-fighters spare no expense engage the flames, the intense smoke and heat with their time, their all, their life-energy sacrifice to quell the tide of defeat? Beat flames back in a game of jeopardy. So others may be saved or returned home something resembling a war aerodrome.