by Whatevr89532 » Thu Jun 29, 2017 1:16 pm
The fire--well it's a chemical reaction of course, and in this case the burning material is parts of a desk. It's outputting more energy (in the form of mundane heat) than seems to have been in the burning material before turning to ash. It doesn't seem like there's any magical energy at work here, or if there is it's not acting in a detectable way. Actually, on closer inspection there is almost no water vapor or carbon dioxide in the air inside of the building, the latter being much stranger perhaps.
Outside, the person in the suit uses a suit-hand-mounted tractor beam to pick up a chunk of burning concrete from the top of the building, pull it a little closer, and run a few scans while spraying a small amount of water and then liquid nitrogen at it, both of which have little to no appreciable effect. A girl's voice with a robotic echo from inside the suit says, "...That doesn't make any sense. It's like someone reading a chemistry book backwards."