Fire is very pretty. And I'm the (mostly) harmless kind of pyro - the worst I've ever done was accidentally light my thumbnail on fire while trying to start a little campfire.

But that was my dad's fault.

No, really. I was making the fire, and he handed me the lighter and then said he was going up the hill to use his cellphone. The last words he said to me before he left the campsite were "don't light your thumb on fire." It was a curse.