alcohol burned , as did tuxedos and tablecloths , bright shirts and party-poppers , flags , pennants and folded napkins , representations of cliques and chickens , heraldic devices consumed , origami transmuted to ash , those still animate running , some headless , all affected by chemical processes , internal conflagrations and external attack , the love apple sharp and melted in the midst of a flaming cake , its remains dissolving and his fingers stripped to the bonemetalglass the fire hed unleashed was green .