Roku’s wild attacks eventually pushed Ulo into a retreat that left the top of the hill vacant, and Roku launched himself upward on blazing jets to take the high ground—but the flames below his feet surged and coalesced into a whirling column of fire. Stretching all the way to the ground, it enveloped the lower half of his body and propelled him faster and higher than he’d intended. A blazing sphere encircled him as he smashed into the stone ceiling, sending rubble tumbling down.
