Touch the fire

 


You take a few cautious steps forward, extend your right arm, and out of curiosity plunge your hand into the flame. For an instant you question why you did such a stupid thing, but the raw heat feels rather... soothing.


Your entire arm bursts into flames. You freak out at first, pulling your arm out of the furnace, but then realize there's still absolutely no pain. You grab your arm with your left hand, and it goes straight through it. Your arm is pure flame. You notice you seem to have no wrist, and where your fingers should be are four tongues of flame.


The blaze spreads across your torso, incinerating all clothing on your top half. It takes your left arm and legs, reducing your entire outfit to ashes. The only part of you the inferno has yet to claim is your head, and that will soon change. The tongues of fire lick your neck and engulf your skull. You close your eyes and flame washes over them. You realize you can no longer speak.


You reopen them. You feel weightless. You look down and see two pillars of fire ending in many individual flames rather than legs and feet. Behind your head, where your hair should be is a long tendril of blaze, longer than you are tall. I say tendril because it is a controllable part of you. You're floating an inch or two off the ground. You move towards the furnace, and look at your reflection in the metal. Your face has two large depressions where your eyes should be, and lacks any other facial features. You realize your lack of a mouth means you can no longer speak, but seeing the many benefits to your amorphous form, you don't totally care. You look up, and blaze up and out of the building.


The mansion burnt down that day. Some said it was a failing furnace. Others a restless spirit. Others still believe you somehow managed to raze the building. But there is one thing all agree on: your ghost would forever haunt those grounds.


From your hiding place among the burning wood, you silently giggle to yourself, knowing all three were true, and that you wouldn't stay in one place for long.

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