Spend five minutes with my favorite character, Magellan.
Magellan lifted his hands to shield his face. Heat and flames licked against his skin, taunting, begging to devour. They reached up and around him, a wall, impenetrable, indomitable, deadly.
He stepped back, reeling from the heat, and the flames advanced. Sweat dampened his temple as his heart shook. The world around him: engulfed, gone, succumbed to fire. Everything he knew was beyond the flames. Did it still exist? Did the people he loved wait for him beyond?
Shuttering, terrified, Magellan took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and jumped through the fire. But he never felt its heat. He opened his eyes, and the flames remained, taunting, begging.
“Enough,” he whispered, and the flames disappeared.
Jennifer M Eaton 
Intriguing!
Thank you!
This is a rip-roaring WIP. Loved every beta reading moment. Someday, it will hit the shelves for all to buy. Great stuff here.
Wow, it is such a different story now since you read it. Wait until you get a load of Darkness. I’m so glad I decided to characterize him
I can’t wait!
Wow! That’s really good.
Thank you Julie!
More, please. Incredible stuff. Did you mean “shuddering” instead of “shuttering”. Got pulled out out of the story at that. Love the name.
Ha! That’s one of my writers faus paus. I use those two interchangeably. Sadly, I don’t pass my FLASH past beta readers. I write it real quick, and post. Thanks, though!
I particularly like ‘begging to devour’.
Thank you. I always think of flames as “eating” Especially in this context, when they are truly more than flames.