Larry turned his head...

The glob of boiling silicon dioxide that was eating into Larry's house was churning away at its meal. It was heading toward the broken end of wire spewing high voltage electricity just a few feet away from where Larry was lying.

A woman that was jogging behind Larry's house on the next block, who was also heading towards the noise and commotion ran into the backyard of the house behind Larry's and peered over the fence. She saw the hot wire cooking everything around it and Larry on his side. She climbed over the fence by grabbing a branch of an overhead tree and swung over, ran over to Larry and sensing it might be dangerous to touch him, she wadded up her sweatshirt around her hands and then grabbed Larry by one of his legs and dragged him back toward the fence.

Larry lurched awake. By stretching him out the woman inadvertantly ripped open his wound on his lower stomach, Larry yelled out in pain.

"I'm moving you away from that wire." the woman answered to his yell.

Larry turned his head grabbing his abdomen at the same time trying to protect the wound, and saw the spewing wire, he also caught a glimpse of the globuloid chewing up his living room through the open back door.

Larry managed to blurt out, "We need to get further away."

The ball broke through the outer edge of the wall at the back of Larry's house.

"That's going to head for the wire, if it reaches it we have a real problem," Larry calculated out loud.

Large arcs of lightning struck out at the ball from the loose ends of the wires, each snap of light generating an enormous thunderclap.

Larry had read an article by National Geographic scientists about ball lightning, how they believed new physics might be involved. Larry was pondering the chemical make-up of what was in front of him.

'We need to get shielded from that as soon as possible," he commanded. His wound was leaking profusely, he wasn't thinking about the pain so much as what might happen if that ball and the wire touch each other. The woman kept dragging him.