I like to think that something burnt down:
"The smell of smoke, the evening sky was proof"
Probably an attempt by his mother to burn down the Dime, as she suggested it in The Inquiry of Ms Terri:
"Touch, taste, feel it ripping me down. A reprise, two times, the Dime, burn it to the ground."
He's walking back to the main city and sees that his mother has gone through with it and probably ran off, and he realises he might never get to ask the questions he has waited too long to ask:
"Belated conversation saturate anticipation for the answers that simply won't come."
As a consequence of this, it is probably the Priest/Pimp who rapes and murders her in the next Act (the Procession).
I like to think that something burnt down: "The smell of smoke, the evening sky was proof"
Probably an attempt by his mother to burn down the Dime, as she suggested it in The Inquiry of Ms Terri: "Touch, taste, feel it ripping me down. A reprise, two times, the Dime, burn it to the ground."
He's walking back to the main city and sees that his mother has gone through with it and probably ran off, and he realises he might never get to ask the questions he has waited too long to ask: "Belated conversation saturate anticipation for the answers that simply won't come."
As a consequence of this, it is probably the Priest/Pimp who rapes and murders her in the next Act (the Procession).