and he disappears in a wall of flame- { viola } the horses leap forward as the wall of flame whooshes up the riverbed behind us- and there 's hardly anywhere to get away from it , the trees in front of us are ablaze and the rocks on the hillside above are somehow burning , too , even the snowflakes are evaporating in mid-air , leaving little wisps of steam where they were hanging , and we 're away from the first attack but if he comes back , there 's nowhere to go , there 's nowhere at all to go- `` viola ! ''