Fire Lines by Cara Thurlbourn

Author:Cara Thurlbourn [Thurlbourn, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780995726628
Publisher: Bewick Press
Published: 2017-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

I am still hunched in a ball, shaking, when Cai returns for me. He doesn’t say much, just helps me to my feet and takes me back to Kole and Rhea. Rhea offers me a flask of water but my hands are too unsteady to hold on to it, so she apologises and opens the door for us to leave.

Back in the open, Kole tells me to sit down. I fold myself into a nook beneath the oak tree and take some deep breaths. He sits beside me. “I didn’t know they were going to do that,” he says.

“I can’t stop seeing it. It was…”

Kole nods, solemnly. “I imagine so.”

“The Council told us he was born that way. Mahg – his wings.”

“I see.”

“He was just a boy.”

“A boy who turned to darkness because he wanted to be like his peers,” replies Kole.

“But how did he go from that, to—”

Kole rises up and helps me to my feet. He starts walking back towards the Academy. “After the spell, he fled to the Islands. He stayed there for seventeen years, building an army. Then returned to capture the stone.”

I am still shaky, struggling to keep up as Kole strides back through the long grass. “When he blew up the bridge?”

“Indeed.”

We break free of the grass and I step in line. I take hold of Kole’s arm and he stops. “I saw Tsam’s father and – I think it was his mother?”

Kole’s forehead wrinkles. “You should talk to Tsam. I’ll take you to him now.”

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