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"Those who can do hellfire can also suspend it?"

There wasn’t h on that short list

"As far as I know, those ith hellfire can only blast it, not control it Think of an extres--destruction, ushes out, along with the conjurer’s power and energy, eats everything in its path, and then goes out If that were the case here, we’d seethe fire pattern winged up in some places to foric instead of sticks and ht leash"

I traced the fire patterns in the air withhow the burnon all the walls I ducked and ran"Heat weakened the properties of the wood, but it didn’t ignite It was not an efficient fire"

"What does thatme to the doorway of the room that had held the book The floor in this rooround beloed through A picture was starting to form

"An efficient fire is one without much smoke It is mostly flaas for a lot of fuel in the air Here, the floor’s sests an inefficient fire But these walls say otherwise"

The living rooht side of the roo shivers raced across my skin I did not like the look of this one bit

I worked toward the kitchen at the back of the house "When fire is burning wood, the actual wood is not aflaht at the surface There is the tiniest gap If you see a burning log, the outside ht be charred, but if you stop the fire, thewill be fine In essence, it’s the ses the wood’s properties, which creates cheas, which then fuels the fire Thestory short, the massive amount of heat in this house should’ve burned the floor as badly as it did the walls But the floor is fine in soe could float fire He kept it off the ground in some places, but let it burrow in others How? Why?"

I let out a breath as I broke out in a cold sweat

"He controlled all thison my belt as the floor bowed under h

I touched Darius’s hand attached to my belt just to assure myself I wouldn’t fall in "This belt better be quality, Darius"

We edged forward another few feet, and I answered his question "Yes He controlled it very well, or else…" I cut ht bulb snapped on in s in relief "He ical floor I’ve never seen one used as fire retardant, but it could work, I suppose The floor’s probably e didn’t root the spell" I scratched es who don’t root spells Usually that’s a rookie h that one had so this through I couldn’t do these spells on ical encyclopedia was extensive If it hadn’t been, I’d be dead twenty tiic buffer first, protecting the ceiling The layer for the floor co through it, so he’d have to do this room by room The fire seems moderately controlled, which is hard for a huhest level of power Or…" I tapped ht

"Or?" Darius asked, a captive audience

"Or it would take the right knowledge and a boost of power The unicorn blood is the boost The knowledge and sustained increase in power could co host to a demon? Curious minds want to know"

I saw the hole from which I’d retrieved the sack of spells Not burned