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Firespirit (birthay challenge)

Blue light fell through the high glass-in-lead windows. The light nearly touched the edges of circle drawn on the ground.
Several people, wearing cloaks that hid their faces, sat in the circle.
Voices rose to the ceiling, composing a complicated song as they chanted.
The light crept over the floor as the hours passed, eventually one man entered the room, lighted the candles standing on circle line en left again.
In the middle of the circle lay a baby. The little being didn’t move or made a sound.
Suddenly the chanting was taken to a different level, the candles were blown out all at the same time and the fire swept over the floor in straight lines between the singers and lighted a smaller circle of candles around the baby. Now the flames rose together and formed a flaming orb around the child and lifted him of the pillow on which he lay.
The fire faded, the child opend his tiny fist and showed a little flame.
A women stepped foreward and took the child.
She was proud to be the mother of the chosen one

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