The fall winds came in to clean Los Angeles, and briefly in the morning light the city was clear and vibrant until the smoke came up in a towering column to the north. Soon there was ash floating down and when the wind changed, the smoky haze covered the city and you could smell it.
It will be curious to see how the fires in Malibu effect world affairs, it being a prominent cultural center and home to countless wealthy celebrities, exerting influence on a local government which itself has been tugging against the central government for some time.
And the neglected and abandoned regions below the Malibu hills rose up to sap away some of their resources back, looting the burning mansions, themselves booty acquired from legalized hand-over-fist looting of the body politic.
