Fire Girl, Forest Boy by Chloe Daykin

Author:Chloe Daykin [Chloe Daykin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571349449
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2019-08-01T16:00:00+00:00

Maya

When he lifts me up I don’t waste time screaming. I ball my fists and summon up all my fire and let it out. A fireball bounces out of the air and up to the roof, blazing a trail as it skims the walls. It’s out of control. A raw spirit that burns him on the elbow, the knee. Jabbing in and out. The man holds me high in the air and yells, ‘No burning, no burning!’ He doesn’t let go.

It isn’t Charles. It’s someone else.

I think someone might notice. Someone might help. But in the chaos of the fire alarm no one’s here and no one does.

I see Raul running down the corridor after us, clinging on to both rucksacks, Dad’s door left open.

The fireball weaves up and around us like a sparkler. The man runs down the stairs and out into the heat, yelling stuff I don’t know in Spanish, and tips me into the back of a three-wheeler mototaxi.

‘Stay!’ He points at me like a dog and turns to yell something at Raul. The ball loses control of itself in the wind.

Steven comes screaming across the car park and throws himself in through the open window. The fireball jumps into the back with us. I hold Steven close and he snuffles his nose into my hand and the ball bursts like a bubble and disappears.

Raul says something in Spanish and jumps in with the bags and the guy starts the engine, which sounds like a can of flies in a sardine tin.

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