The Never-Ending Fire

I screamed as the flames touched me. The pain was terrible, it felt like I was about to die. But I was still alive. And then, when the flames slowly burned my body to ash, I saw how beautiful everything was. The fire gave everything a golden edge, and the flames danced. I tried to stand up, but my body was too weak. Another scream escaped me as the flames caught my hair. But all I wanted was to join the flames in their graceful dance. Suddenly the floor broke, and I fell down, into the fire that was burning. My eyes was blended, I couldn't see, and my body was paralyzed. All I could hear was the screams of the other orphans that was caught in the fire. Why did they scream? Everything was so beautiful...

And in the middle of the fire that was burning in London that night, a nine year old orphan was reborn as something that was more like a demon than a girl. Her name was Alice, although that she only knew herself as Flame...