Sunday, April 01, 2007

On Friday Quintin's place almost burnt down I say almost because the ceiling and roof burned but the rest was mostly okay, parts of the ceiling crashed down on parts of the bedroom and hallway. I walked up the back stairwell, and found Amy standing in Q's bedroom, she handed me a computer's hard drive and I walked down the main staircase and gave it to his landlord, who placed it in a bag to keep the ashy smell from smelling up his apartment. I dug through a pile of ash and found a ring, and a black and white picture of what looked like a grandfather. Q's shrine had taken most of the damage, having been hit from pieces of the ceiling falling into it burning, but most everything else, his bed, desk, was okay if covered with a thin coating of ash. We collected a bag of his salvaged and burnt sacred relics, and gave it two his friend Dean, who offered to put Q up until his apartment is livable again. We left with a bag of Q's work clothes, just in case he can't get back in when he gets back from Atlanta. Amy is going to wash them.