Scorned as the One Who "Ran"

As for Slade Leeds's formal combustion (this, I'm saying, as opposed to his far more spontaneous/metaphysical crap), couldn't that just as easily have come from the thunder-bolt alone? I mean, just look to the fact that his princely nature, prior to the laying on of hands at Sassy's (yes, specifically, that first time), was itself a superficial thing. Of course, the fact that Leeds is currently spouting a newer form of gibberish in Wellesley, couldn't it also be stated that "lightning", once in fact it's in the bottle, folks, has its OWN tendency to dissipate? I'm asking.