Silvertongue by Charlie Fletcher

Author:Charlie Fletcher
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction - Young Adult
Publisher: Disney Publishing Worldwide

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO

Mile Zero

George and Spout flew fast and low as they made their way back to the Embankment. In the main they flew below roof level, only popping above when the street they were flying along went too far in the wrong direction and they needed to take a shortcut.

George was flying like this because he didn’t want to draw the attention of any new spits to their whereabouts, and Spout seemed happy to let him steer. George could see he was tired by his two fights.

“You’re doing well,” he said, gently slapping his neck.

“Gack,” said Spout, tipping sharply as he swooped out of the bottom of Leicester Square, heading for Charing Cross and the Embankment beyond. George caught sight of something moving fast across the snow, heading north past the bookshops on Charing Cross Road. He craned around to look backward, and was relieved to see it was no taint, but one of the Queen’s daughters. He was just starting to wonder what she was doing when Spout flared his wings and seemed to stop dead in midair, almost standing on his tail.

“Genny gits, Eigengang!”

George snapped his head around and saw the horde now pouring into the center of Trafalgar Square.

“Wow,” he breathed. “Yeah. That’s many spits, all right.”

The Queen and the Officer were easy to see, even in the crowd, because firstly they were directing people here and there, and secondly, there were several horses but only one chariot. But no Edie that he could see.

“Down, Spout,” he said.

The cat-gargoyle headed for the chariot without any need for George to steer him. As he dropped smoothly and flew along the lower level of the square, between the snow-filled fountains, George scissored one leg over his neck and jumped off in a running dismount. He lurched sideways, pulled off balance by an unnatural weight on his right side. The twinge of pain in his shoulder reminded him that his arm was now stone. He looked down at his hand and shuddered at the sight. Only the two fingers next to his thumb were still him. The limestone had spread over the rest. He jammed his hand in his pocket and decided to think about it later.

“Did you stop her?” said the Officer as he ran up.

“No,” said George. “Where’s Edie?”

And while the square filled up around them, as spits of all shapes and sizes took up defensive positions, using the balustrades and raised pools and walls as cover, the Queen told George what the Sphinx had said about the black mirror, about how it was in a bed not a bed, someplace where he had felt it to be, and then how they had failed to keep an eye on Edie. The news of her disappearance rocked him, and to hide how shaken he was, he bought time by telling them how he was unable to stop the Queen of Time from flying to her doom. But even as he spoke, at the back of his mind an insistent

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