#analogies

The characters are analogy nodes.

But that doesn't apply for everyone.

Let's take Ivo as an example. He's afraid of hurting just because he starts trusting again. So he doesn't trust it when they say "run through the fire and get to the door". He's afraid.

So, by avoiding the fire, he runs up to the top floor, where the fire might take longer to reach him. Up there, he found someone in a similar situation so he knows how to sympathize.

When that person tells him to jump off cause there's a rescue team down there, Ivo is already too far gone to even look down himself. So he jumps

In reverse, fire is not easy to set, even harder in insufficient environment. Stone is said fire, and he won't just light up for anyone. Maybe Ivo set him off or someone else did, but either way, Stone's flames got a lick of him and he continued to spread to other materials, no matter how hard.

Stone is, in a way, helping Ivo learn to trust people again, to not be afraid of hurting just to survive.

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