The Tinker King by Tiffany Trent

Author:Tiffany Trent
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fables, Legends, Action & Adventure, Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic, General, Myths
ISBN: 9781442457614
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

I can’t breathe without an inner trembling nearly shaking the skin from my bones. What I saw came true. I watched the ship fall in green fire from the sky. Watched it in the sky while I floated in a magic bubble.

I feel like I’ll be breathing that fire and smoke forever. That terrible realization that what I had seen came true. The vast darkness opens inside me and laughs.

“Syrus,” Olivia says. She’s coughing and looking ill again, and I wonder if the poison made her see the same things.

“Did you see it?” I ask. “The ship?”

She frowns. “Yes, of course.”

“I mean, in your mind. Did you see it in your mind? Did you know that it was going to happen before it did?”

“Well, no. At least, I don’t think so. Did you?” she asks.

I’m afraid to tell her. I don’t want her to ask me questions that I won’t or can’t answer. I bite my lip against the truth. Piskel, of course, gives everything away by stepping out from behind my ear and nodding emphatically.

“Syrus, what did you see?”

I don’t want to tell her. I don’t understand it myself, why the visions fill me with such terrible foreboding. I’m not even sure what they mean. Well, obviously I know what the airship one meant now. I suppose the white city is the one on the hill above us, hidden by tiers of walls. But the army?

I shake my head. “It’s all really too fuzzy to try to explain.”

But she figures it out anyway. “So you knew about the airship?”

“Yes.” I feel deeply chagrined, wishing I’d put more stock in something I didn’t want to believe.

“When things become clearer, tell me,” she says. She knows I’m hiding things; it must be plain on my face. “I want to know. You may be able to prevent disaster.”

I can’t help but wonder: Even if we know something, can we still prevent it?

Guards, crewmen, and several dray carts are finally making their way to us across the landing area. We are hemmed in by the wall of the city rising on one side and sea cliffs on all the others.

Someone yells, “ ‘Ware! Kraken!”

And we’re all suddenly racing to the cliff’s edge, those of us who can. The wind becomes not just an insistent tug but a slap, stinging my eyes with its salt and fish. I adjust my satchel so that it doesn’t chafe my neck. In the near distance, looping tentacles break the scarlet surface of the Winedark Sea and close around the wreckage of the Sullen Harpy. A great eye rolls up out of the foam, and a giant beak devours the broken airship. I am just really, really glad I did not go down with the ship at this moment.

“A Kraken!” Olivia says. The wind has put color in her cheeks and shine in her eyes. “Can you believe it?”

I think of the Kraken we helped rescue from beneath the Tower a year ago, just before Tianlong was released. I smile and say, “Yes.

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