It's a harbinger of death.

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From: A dream about a walk in the marshes


Fear it.

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It's common sense.

You would love to watch the little flame wander across the marshes, but you dare not. You put your hands into the swamp, and cover your eyes in cool, healing, dull-coloured mud.