In awe, Abe watched Soots' performance. Despite everything Abe's been through, just walking over hot coals wasn't something he felt brave enough to do. When he finished, a roar of applause followed. Abe clapped along and immediately approached Soots. "Wow, you were great! But, eh... How did you do that without burning your feet?"
Soots blushed from the messiah's praise.
"Oh! Thank you. I donno. The others told me its more of a mind over matter thing. It defiantly LOOKS harder than it is."
He then laughed and pointed to Abe, "Maybe you should give it a try! After all, you've faced worse things."
When asked to try it for himself, Abe held up his hands and instinctively took a step back. Only to be met with a hot sting from stepping on a cinder. “Ow! Eh... Yeah, I guess, but- I don’t go looking for danger, usually.” Watching others do it did make it look not as hard as Soots’ routine was, but he still wasn’t exactly filled with confidence.
"Hey, You're the one with the flame thrower and god powers. I'd suspect you'd be in your element!" Soots patted Abe on the back and laughed.
"Its totally optional though. I'm super glad you saw me. It kinda reawakened me a little. Like, I feel more powerful!"
He then thought for a moment and asked Abe, "Was this how you felt when getting your scary powers??"
“It’s different when you’re on the right side of the fire.” He said with a shrug. Hearing Soots talk about how invigorating it was did slowly make him reconsider. But before he could dwell on the thought for too long, he was asked a question. Abe immediately shook his head. “Oh... No, it was- Well? Afterwards I felt pretty good about it, but the process itself was very... Well? Painful...” Looking over his shoulder at the coals once more, it did dawn on him that this couldn’t possibly be more dangerous or painful as everything else he had done. With a determined look he smiled back at Soots. “Maybe I do wanna try this.”
That was something Soots did NOT expect. When Abe said he wanted to give it a try the dancer smiled from ear to ear and had stars in his eyes.
"Really?! OH MY ODD...
ABE'S GONNA FIREWALK!"
Soots said this a bit too loudly and now everyone was looking at the messiah intrigued. Excited mumbles started to fill the crowd.
Immediately as Soots shouted out he was gonna give it a shot, Abe’s heart jumped up to his throat as he frantically looked around and watched every pair of eyes to focus on him simultaneously. He had hoped to just do this quietly with the others, but when would that ever happen? Abe thought he would get used to this kind of attention, but each time it was apparent that wasn’t the case. His eyes then drifted towards the carpet of hot coals as it was getting raked in preparation of Abe’s walk. “Okay... Eh.. So, how do I do this?”
