I fell in the same moment we finally got free of the flames, and Grue fell with me.

Hey, make sure you get those feet out too.

There wasn’t fire underneath us, but I could still feel the heat, intense, accompanied by a blinding pain.  I was on fire.

Hey, maybe it’s a good thing you fell. You’ve both already stopped and dropped, now it’s time to roll!

The water was too shallow to extinguish the fires as they licked around us, and even rolling in it failed to do anything substantial.

Well, shit.

Uh, what other ways are there… covering the flames in some sort of fireproof fabric? But I doubt there’s much of that nearby.

Grue smothered us in darkness.  I’d fought alongside him before, I’d been under the effects of his power countless times, but this was different.

…interesting. Can he modify the exact properties of the darkness to make it better suited to putting out fires?

I was hurting, I wanted to find solutions, and now I couldn’t see.  I couldn’t even use my swarm sense to assess the situation, because the flames Burnscar had spread around the area were limiting my bugs’ movements.

Oh, that kind of different.

Our enemies, Mannequin and Burnscar, were similarly out of my reach.  I felt a swelling panic as I thrashed, trying to immerse myself.