Hot wax sizzles on his skin, dripping from where his fingers had sunk into the molten flesh. Let go, Tim falls to his knees, for a moment, falling to the blissful, terrifying red of pain-

And he hears that distorted, toothful voice garble out Jared's intent. Tim manages a gasp and focuses pushing as much of that devouring, desolating burn as far as he can in the mammoth of a man.