The building next door was currently on fire.
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Fires take a while to take hold though, he reasoned. No point panicking over nothing.
He re-read the forth draft of his response to Sarah from accounting. Firm, but polite. He added an emoji, but thought it looked patronising so took it out. Send.
He took one last look at his email as he stood up to go, eyes smarting from the thickening smoke. 11 new emails. He had better reply to that one from Marketing, so as not to block them. There's still time.
Flames consumed him as he hunched over his laptop deciding whether to CC John's manager.