Larry started to awaken...

Larry started to awaken, he was aware of the odors on the air, and that he was breathing them in. He turned onto his side holding his gut through the pain. He wasn't sure what to do. The wire that had hit him was lying a few feet away spewing sparks as it actively bobbed in and out of the grass and sand. He decided he was going to go the other way. He started to move his knees and shoulders in a kind of caterpillar action, slowly making his way back to the back door of his house. He looked in from where he was laying on the ground. He could see out his front window and could hear all of the commotion out front.

He looked down at his belly and started to pull encrusted shirt fabric, his leather belt, and pieces of toasted skin off of himself. He exposed a little too much and felt another scream of pain race through him forcing him to freeze himself, if he arched from the pain it made it worse, tearing open more baked skin, he started to shake violently from the excruciating pain. He forced himself still. He breathed. "I have to exercise control." It wasn't coming easily. Thinking through convulsive reactions he put his hand over the spot he exposed and held it there, hoping somehow this would cool the pain and help make it go away.

He looked around, he had tears pouring off his face. He used his shoulder to dry his face off. He pulled along the ground up onto the flat porch at the back of the house, he was looking about, "I must be about to pass out, " as everything in his vision started turning white. His head went light, he slumped over and his body relaxed from unconsciousness.

A globe started back towards Larry's house, it began to eat away at the corner of the concrete block of the house. The corner of the roof started collapsing as it was being consumed by the intense heat. Larry was unaware of the danger. Blood was trickling ever so slightly out of the crusty cauterized area he had picked at.

The ball lightning was eating further into the corner of Larry's house, burning his entertainment center, heading closer and closer toward the back of the house, as if it hungered for Larry.

As more of the house collapsed the ball grew larger, all of the globes of abusive heat and molten glass all over the beach were swelling in size, the ones underground were lodging into place from swelling too much, it seemed as if some were beginning to finally cool off.