The rafter on which the ice demon was perched happened to be directly in the path of the outgoing rush of fire as it escaped through the hole in the roof. The intense heat melted the ice demon and he dripped down off of the rafter onto the table below where he was immediately absorbed by a singed bearmat. ("Bearmat" being Hullspeak for what the rest of us know as a "beermat" or "coaster". "Singed" is Hullspeak for "signed", but in this case the bearmat was, in fact, singed. It may well have been signed too, but that's another story.) As soon as the entire essence of the ice demon had been absorbed into the bearmat, the demon regained full consciousness and his mutation into the dreaded BEARMAT DEMON was complete!