He looked around as if expecting the fire god to appear.

I could hope it couldn't get any farther, not in the fire god's domain.

"When the fire god takes a man, the Burning starts."

"How often have you felt the touch of the fire god?"

A curious fire god might still look into Whandall's mind.

He could barely see, hear, feel, with the fire god's senses raging in his head.

Whatever the fire god has been doing to this town, it's over.

"And if you have a son, will you give him to the fire god?"

They expected the fire god to disappear; instead, this time he remained.

It was the word of a power greater than the fire god.