The Flames of Hope (Wings of Fire, Book 15) by Tui T. Sutherland

Author:Tui T. Sutherland [Sutherland, Tui T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf, azw3
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2022-04-05T07:00:00+00:00

Luna opened her eyes.

She was standing on the slope of a mountain, in bright daylight, surrounded by pine trees. … What?

She blinked, but the pine trees were still there. She held up her talons. They looked like hers. She felt like herself. She did not feel like she was drowning in evil vines.

Is this an evil-vine hallucination?

It felt awfully real.

If it is a hallucination, why is it happening?

For a moment, she stared at the trees, but they didn’t seem to have any sinister intentions. They swayed gently, looking the very opposite of suspicious. Their whole aura radiated “nope, not interested in eating your brain.”

Something was sitting on her foot.

Luna glanced down. It was Dusky, but he had his eyes squeezed shut and his little arms and tail clamped around her leg. He was so small, smaller even than most two-year-old dragonets.

“Any idea where we are?” she asked him.

He shook his head mutely. She thought about pointing out that he might have a better chance of guessing if he actually opened his eyes and looked, but she decided he was already stressed enough.

And this certainly didn’t look like the Pantala they knew.

It looked more like the dragon colony Luna had visited in Pyrrhia — the one called Sanctuary, which was surrounded by pine forest like this. Except here, there were no dragons in any direction, as far as she could see.

She spotted an overlook beyond the trees. Luna paced over to it, dragging Dusky along with her — which was not difficult; he seemed to weigh no more than a pine cone.

They gazed down at the land below them.

Luna had expected to see a continent choked with vines; she’d thought she’d find the breath of evil plant spreading from here to the horizon. She wouldn’t have been surprised to discover that she’d been unconscious and mind-controlled for years, and this was a future where the plant had won and taken over everything.

But what she saw instead was far more mystifying.

The landscape below her looked … strangely organized. It was partitioned into squares and rectangles and ovals, with long, flat lines running between all of them. Many of the sections contained cubic structures, giant boxes with ornate roofs, or taller towerlike things.

It’s like a Hive, Luna realized, spotting an arrangement of roofs around an open square that might be a market. Except all the layers are spread out next to each other, instead of stacked on top of one another.

Some of the areas were for growing food plants, as far as she could tell — like the Hive greenhouses, but open to the air and much bigger. Those seemed to be arranged around the outer edges, while the inner sections were crammed with cubes and towers and stepped temples and stone-paved courtyards.

“Dusky,” Luna said, nudging him with her snout. “What are we looking at? Does this look at all familiar to you?”

He shook his head again.

Luna scanned the sky. “I still don’t see any dragons. Isn’t that odd?” Did they all live

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