Like a moth to the flame.

What is it about fires that draws things to them? Humans in particular seem to love them. 

If you're camping on a mountain top, sometimes out can look out and see their glow in the distance. Each light means that there is somebody out there. Or a whole bunch of them means a town. 

But either way, it means the same thing. Warmth. A chance for companionship, maybe even some warm food or drink, depending on who's tending the fire.

Fire actually needs two main components, besides the essential spark that creates it. Fire needs air to feed it, and the earth to ground it. 

A fire with not enough air will flicker and die. It can have all the wood it needs for fuel, but will still fade out and die. It needs the freedom and winsome nature of that element to dance it's merry dance and send out it's joyous sparks. 

A fire with too much air has the opposite problem. Air is a capricious element, too much of it and the fire will either be blown out and extinguished or burn even hotter, becoming an out of control fire storm.

Lina-san sometimes reminds me of a fire with too much air. She doesn't like to be grounded much, preferring the freedom of the open air.

Which means that she finds a lot of trouble. Bandits, Mazoku, Dark Lords. They act as fuel for her fire and become blown away. 

On the other hand, without trouble, Lina-san would probably wither and die. She feeds on the challenges that they pose. She needs them like a fire needs air. 

And people are drawn to fire. 

Gourry-san, Zelgadiss-san, Sylphiel-san, Martina-san, Filia-san, Xelloss-san. We've all been drawn to her flame. We occasionally get burnt from it, but we're all stronger for it. 

And I think we ground her a bit. Gourry-san in particular. 

Every time our group grows beyond about four people, something really, really bad seems to happen. Someone get kidnapped, a Dark Lord rises or the World gets threatened. It's almost as if we instinctively know that she'll need the stability that we provide.

I've been compared to a Fire too before. Usually after a 'Burning With the Fires of Justice', speech. Tousan says it's because that I'm needed as a Princess of Saillune to 'Light the way into the Future'.

I think I would rather be a Light than a Fire. 

Lights can be so different from fires. Just look at the colours they give off. 

The warm radiance of the Sun. The silver luminescence of the Moon. The blue blaze of a Bram Blazer. The red shimmer of someone's Battle Aura.

All which differ from the orange/yellow glow of a fire. They all mean different things as well. 

If I could choose any light to be, I'd be the light the stars share. Even when the moon has disappeared from the night sky, the stars are always there, easing the darkness left by the Sun's absence.

Stars are easily over looked in the great scheme of things most of the time, because they are so tiny. But there are multitudes of stars in the sky, all shining with a variety of colours. It's like a glistening rainbow of water droplets thrown into the canopy of the night. 

Stars have their own sort of warmth.

I've often been told that I'm a very warm person. It confused me when I was younger, because my body temperature felt the same as anybody else. It wasn't until I was older that I understood that it was meant that my personality was warm, not body. 

Even that was confusing for a while. I don't think I truly understood what that meant until I met Zelgadiss-san. 

Zelgadiss-san is the personification of cool. Not cold, he's still human and has a heart. But he's very cool, very detached from the people around him. While I cannot help but to be effected and care.

That is when I think I began to understood what warmth was. Warmth was the other people around you, the glow that the fire brought together. 

Would it be so strange then, that something warm would yearn for something cold? Not because it new, or strange, but because it needed it?

Think about it.

Fires need the earth. Stars aren't visible without the night. 
There is no light without darkness. You need the two in order for them both to exist. 

Just as you don't know what warmth is until you know what balances it out.

fin.