“Blood! Blast! And Fire”

“Blast ignorant people with high-powered streams of information and wisdom, but only when fire hoses are not readily available.”

“Of course it hurt you neanderthal! See that? Thats blood. If theres blood, theres pain. Its like smoke and fire.”

“Families were bunk, temporary and uneasy alliances of strangers who would hate each other less without the coercion of blood, the spiraling bonds of genetic ivy holding its victims fast to a blasted tree.”

“Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?”

“She opened her hand, and a ball of fire blasted from it toward the cloudless sky of the Realm. It whirled above the Shifters, growing and stretching into a huge flaming disc. It moved down, forming a spinning inferno wall around them.”