"Well, possibly he thought the boy would change his mind and come back. He was very arrogant, you see. So the boy let everyone into the tower, although the soldiers stayed outside and hid nearby because there wasn't enough good hiding places for everyone inside, and they laid an ambush.
When the sorcerer came back, the fire-woman was the first to greet him. She hugged him as she had hugged the mercenary guards, and said in his ear, 'remember me?'
The sorcerer was extremely surprised, but he was far less susceptible to fire than a random mercenary. He flung the fire-woman off of him into a magic pool, and her fire was put out, and she was a human woman again."