Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27149654-20151114031542/@comment-31166511-20170220143331

When Bill turned Ford into a backscratcher and took the three journals from Dipper, we saw the three books levitating in the air surrounded by mystically summoned flames.

Mystic flames, as opposed to good old normal earth-type oxidation with its boring old well tested and documented properties.

The three books float suppended, flaming but not noticably altered, for several seconds.

One Journal is seen falling to earth--still aflame, yet still in one piece. The last evidence we see is a single page spread, scortched around the edges. Yet the page is still largely intact.

It certainly doesn't resemble a page from a book burned by normal fire. Real fire doesn't carefully pull pages from their bindings and destroy them one-by-one.

And even if Billfire DOES work that way, the fire is actually extinguished as the page is blown away by the wind. It's reasonable to assume that the scortched and loose pages are blowing around the deserted city like so much litter.