Flaming Silver Swords

Darkness surrounded a very large bonfire with people camping, fellowshipping, eating, dancing and celebrating around the fire.  There were a great number of silver swords standing with their tips in the ground surrounding the people.  It was though there were all types of creatures drawn to the people, but they didn’t seem to notice the fire.  These swords were actually people.  Snakes were coming out from the fire and the swords picked them up and threw them back into the fire where they were consumed.  Others were speared with the swords; as the sword pinned their heads to the ground they disappeared.
The people who had become the swords had the ability to see the snakes.  There were people close to the edge of the darkness had snakes, deception attached to them.  Many of the swords developed eyes and they very carefully began to separate the snakes from the people.  The people who had been separated from the snakes drew closer and closer to the fire.  The closer they came to the fire the fewer creatures there were surrounding them.
It was when the people were drawn to step into the fire that they transformed in to flaming silver sword.