Enchanted Forest #04 - Talking to Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

Author:Patricia C. Wrede [Wrede, Patricia C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Fiction, General, Fantasy Fiction, Wizards, Magic, Animals, Mythical, Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic, Kings and Rulers, Royalty, Dragons, Humorous Stories, Fairy Tales, Princesses, Swords, Kings; Queens; Rulers; Etc, Kings; Queens; Rulers; Etc., Dragons; Unicorns & Mythical
ISBN: 9780152046910
Google: kVhMFjux-9AC
Amazon: 0152046917
Publisher: Sandpiper
Published: 1985-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

I got about five steps. Then there was a whooshing noise and a wall of flames shot up around me, very hot and bright.

I yelled, because I couldn't see where I was going anymore, and I yanked at my sword. I think I had some vague idea that the sword might be able to keep me from burning to death; I certainly couldn't see to fight anything.

Something hit me in the middle of my back just as the sword came out of its sheath. I felt something from the sword; it wasn't a tingle, it was more like a wave of anti-Talking to Dragons 119

cipation followed very closely by a surge of disappointment.

I was so surprised I nearly dropped it. Then I realized that it wouldn't matter if I did drop it, because I was lying on the ground. I was also much cooler man I had been a minute ago, and someone was pounding on me.

"Stop it!" I said. The someone sat back, and I saw that it was Shiara.

"Are you all right?" Shiara said.

"I think so," I said. "Why were you pounding on me?"

"Your clothes were on fire," Shiara said. "I was trying to put them out. If I'd known you were going to fuss about it, I'd have let them bum."

I apologized and thanked her, then looked around. Shiara and I were sitting on the ground just inside a ring of fire.

In the center of the ring was a short, round building with a pointed roof; it wasn't quite tall enough to call a tower, but it wasn't short enough to call a house, either. I moved away from the flames, which were uncomfortably warm, and looked at Shiara. "What happened?"

"How should I know? One second you were walking across the clearing, and the next second there was all this fire and you were yelling," Shiara said. "And when I tried to shove you out of it, we both got in here instead, and that thing was sitting there." She waved at the not quite tower.

"At least it isn't invisible," I offered. Shiara gave me a disgusted look, but she didn't say anything.

"Hello?" called the dragon's voice from the other side of the wall of fire. "Are you there?"

"We're here," I called back "Both of us."

"How did you do that?" the dragon shouted.

"I don't know," I said. "And I don't think I want to stay here to find out." I picked myself up off the ground and put the sword back in its sheath. "I think maybe we'd better go," I said to Shiara. "Before something comes out of that house."

"It isn't a house," Shiara said. "But I think I agree with you."

"Achoo!" said the dragon from the other side of the fire.

"Just a minute, here!" a voice said behind me.

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