Lily opened her mouth to scream, surprised by the sudden flash of light and heat, but the sound was lost in all the noise. The light was white and yellow and orange like fire, it wasn't green, but it still immediately reminded her of the last thing she'd seen before arriving in Colligo: the bright green flash of a killing curse. However, the sting in her lungs from the smoke quickly brought her out of those thoughts. If she could cough, then she wasn't dead.
She hadn't realized that she'd fallen. What on earth had happened? And where was Severus? She could still hear debris falling to the ground so out of instinct she flung her arms up to protect her head. "Sev?" she called, but she couldn't even hear herself. She was pretty sure he couldn't hear her either.
Things started to quiet, but somewhere an alarm was screeching. She blinked, trying to see through the haze and locate Severus. He was sitting up, but she couldn't tell if he was hurt. She pushed herself up as well. Her elbow was scraped from the sidewalk and she could feel a small trickle of blood from a cut on her temple. She reached up to wipe some of the blood away with her hand to keep it out of her eye.
"Are you okay? What the bloody hell just happened?" she called over at Severus, wondering if the ringing in his ears was as bad as the ringing in hers.