Duncan rolled the arrowhead in a torn piece of linen and shoved it in the brazier nearby until it ignited. After two heartbeats, the arrow already flew from his bow into the tide of corpses, igniting another wight. At the start, the wights had attacked like a torrent, but the flames quickly spread to the rest soon after the first one was set on fire. After this was repeated a few times, the stream of walking cadavers thinned but continued flowing ceaselessly.