"Others know more about it than I do," she started to explain. "Yes. It was...not normal fire. I felt burns on my flesh, but most of the pain came from within. I heard someone describe it as a burning of the soul."

That pain was gone now, at least. "I distracted him, and my body is more difficult to damage than a human's. We fought until one of the exorcists found us, and then he was safe. After that, we arrived here."