IC: Chapter I - Leiknir Manor

The corpse doesn't move at all as Vidar holds a fire to it's skin. But it's a creature of flesh and bone, and so while the hair readily burns away and the flesh will bubble and eventually char under the direct flame of the torch - all the while stinking in an incredibly foul way, it doesn't catch fire in a way that will propagate and consume the corpse on its own. It will take a much larger secondary source to burn the body entirely.

There is no sign of the woman. But an inspection of the grounds will reveal that her tracks went only a couple of meters inside the door and then disappear completely... Likely because she... or it... the Secret Shadow... had leapt up into rafters.

Whether it was infact a cursed woman, twisted into a beast, or a creature of evil that could change it's form as Finrod speculated, the company might never know. Though it can now be certain they are one in the same creature. And Astrid and Finrod both are unlikely to forget that human face which they had fired upon with deadly intent. Whether it was a creature of darkness or not, it most certainly looked and sounded human with it's pleas.

It takes some time to drag timbers and branches and assemble a pyre, and the fire's light will burn long into the morning and next day, but destroying the thing irrevocably will soon be done and the long night over.