The Wrath of Mulgarath by Holly Black

Author:Holly Black
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

It was a massive structure.

Chapter Five

IN WHICH They Find the Meaning of “Here There Be Dragons”

By reflex, Jared looked behind him, but the goblins were no longer there. The griffin landed with a clatter of claws on top of a car, denting it, and immediately began to groom himself like a cat. Simon grinned from Byron’s back.

Jared turned to Mallory, but she was staring at the cow. It was chained to the ground, lowing softly, eyes wide enough to show the whites. Her udder was covered in what appeared to be writhing black snakes jostling for a position at her reddened teats. They blackened the metal sheeting on the ground beneath her like a squirming carpet. After a moment Jared realized the creatures were larger salamanders.

“What are those things doing?” Mallory asked. The bloodstained sword hung limply from her hand, and Jared was overwhelmed with the impulse to take it from her and clean it before she’d have a chance to notice.

He stepped closer to the cow instead. “Drinking the milk, I think.”

“Ugh,” Simon said, squinting down from Byron’s back. “Weird.”

Several more salamanders were lying in the dirt, their scales dull and their bodies wriggling. They were far larger than the tiny finger-length ones Jared and Mallory had seen in the fire.

“They’re shedding their skin,” Simon said. “What are they?”

Jared shook his head. “Fire-resistant salamanders. But they aren’t supposed to get big like this. They look almost like . . . ” But he wasn’t quite sure what it was they reminded him of. Something nagged at the back of his mind.

At that moment Byron darted forward and seized one of the wriggling black creatures in his beak, tossed it into the air, and gulped it down. Then he seized another and another.

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