Game of Flames by Robin Wasserman

Author:Robin Wasserman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2015-11-02T16:00:00+00:00

“Spill it, Garquin,” Dash insisted. Twenty minutes later, and he still couldn’t take his eyes off the sculpture of Chris. Or was it the Chris lookalike from the Light Blade? It didn’t make any sense that Lord Cain would direct the sloggers to build a giant metallic replica of either of them. Not unless there was something very big that Dash didn’t know. “Why is there a sculpture of our crew member glaring down at Lord Cain’s throne room? What’s going on?”

“This is going to take a bit of time…,” Lord Garquin began.

“You said yourself, we’re totally safe in here,” Dash pointed out. “As long as we don’t flip that main switch, Lord Cain can’t do anything to us. Or was that a lie?”

“No…that was true,” Garquin said. The way he said it made it clear that many other things he’d said were not.

“So just tell us already,” Gabriel insisted. “And if you don’t, maybe we’ll just turn that switch back on and get the story from Lord Cain.”

“You really don’t want to do that,” Lord Garquin said.

“How do you know what we want to do?” Piper asked. “You don’t know anything about us.”

“That’s not exactly true,” Lord Garquin said. “And I suppose that’s the first thing I have to admit to you. I’m not Lord Garquin. At least, not exactly.”

“Then who are you?”

That’s when Carly’s voice piped in. “Go on, tell them.”

Dash started in surprise. “Carly? But I thought the atmospheric interference—”

“Yeah,” she said. “So did I. Turns out we thought wrong. About a lot of things. Starting with…”

“It’s me,” Lord Garquin said. And then his strange voice transformed into something much stranger. At the same time, much more familiar. “Chris.”

There was a moment of silence as the shock of it descended on them.

Gabriel found his voice first. “Er, could you maybe be a little more specific? Chris who?”

“Chris who do you think?” Carly said.

“Well, I know it couldn’t be Chris, the guy on my crew who swore he wouldn’t keep any more secrets from me,” Gabriel said. “And it’s definitely not Chris, the guy with no sense of humor, because this would be a pretty elaborate practical joke.”

“Come on, Gabe,” Piper said. “Let’s give him a chance to explain himself.”

“Nothing that comes out of his mouth is the truth,” Gabriel said. “And you want him to say more?”

“Yeah, I do,” Dash said, firmly enough that Gabriel finally let up. “I’m sure Chris has a good explanation for all this…right?”

“I have an explanation,” Chris said. “Whether or not it’s a good one—that will be for you to decide.” He paused, as if trying to figure out where to begin. “I told you I was Lord Garquin because, in a way, it was true. Everything you see on this planet, every machine, every slogger, everything—I built it. I first came to this planet nearly a century ago. As you are now, I was searching for Magnus 7 and trying to develop a way to synthesize it into the fuel I needed.

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