(eng) Lish McBride - Firebug 02 by Pyromantic

Author:Pyromantic [Pyromantic]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

14

JUST DARN IT

EZRA STRETCHED an old picnic blanket out off to the side for Alistair and Gwenant to sit on so they could began their negotiations. Lock persuaded the plants to climb out of the ground, their roots marching them along to safer land. They were reluctant at first, but then Lock told them why he was moving them and they hopped to. I swear one of the ferns gave me a dirty look.

I glared back at the fern. “Surely there was an easier way than moving all of them.”

“Faster and more efficient, yes. You could have razed the plant life down to the ground or I could have only evacuated a ring of plants to act as a firebreak. But there’s a lot of endangered flora around here. I’d rather take a few extra minutes and move them safely.”

I grimaced, following him to gather some wood. “I guess that’s the big difference between your powers and mine. Your first thought is life and maintaining ecosystems. Mine’s all destruction.”

Lock grabbed my wrist, the movement fast, but his hold was gentle. “You’re oversimplifying again, cupcake. Power is a tool. Don’t want to use yours for destruction? Be more creative. I could just as easily tell the plants to wither and die. But that’s not what I want to do. Don’t get stuck in the idea that your power is a single-purpose weapon. It’s lazy thinking, and you’re better than that.” His hand slid down and he squeezed my fingers gently before letting go. “Besides, forest fires have an important role in nature, too.”

We gathered wood in silence after that. Lock had said his piece, and I needed to think on what he said. Soon enough we had a bonfire going, Bianca casting a large veil over all of us so that some nocturnal river enthusiast didn’t spy a large group of ponies and a strange impromptu knitting circle of one.

Sylvie didn’t want to waste time, so she started in on the line of kelpies with sweater-related failures. If our respective leaders didn’t come to an agreement, then she would stop, or most likely we’d have to make her stop, but until then, she just wanted to get going. I spread my jacket out on the ground to give her somewhere slightly more comfortable to sit. Rather surprisingly, Fitz stood behind her like an overprotective big brother, directing the ponies as they shifted and handed over their respective garments.

I didn’t want to pass up the opportunity to learn more about the kelpies, but I don’t think I gathered much info. There really didn’t seem to be any correlation between the coloring of the pony form and the human form. White ponies were just as likely to be black, brown, white, and every shade in between when they shifted. I couldn’t always tell the males from the females until they were in human form, either, unless they spoke or I got a flashlight and did some creative leaning, which would make what I was doing fairly obvious.

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