The Fire Mage Trilogy Complete Box Set (3 Books + Bonus Short Stories) by Bloomfield Kate

Author:Bloomfield, Kate [Bloomfield, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2013-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Flamethroat

It was late afternoon when Flamethroat came into view, with its many turrets and towers sparkling in the late afternoon sun. There was no wall around this city, as I was used to seeing.

The thing that shocked me most as Jack and I walked down the sloping hill was the grass, which was red, orange, and yellow. It was not dying, or dried out, but healthy, and luscious.

‘It’s so vibrant,’ Said Jack, looking around. Even the leaves on the trees were orange, as though autumn had come early.

‘Like fire,’ I said with a small smile.

Jack smiled, and found my hand as we took the winding road that led into the valley. He entwined his fingers in mine and squeezed gently.

‘Let’s find this Martinez character,’ he said.

Jack and I wandered down the streets of the glimmering city. It was absolutely breathtaking. Autumn leaves scattered the pavement, buildings were clean and rose high into the sky, their windows sparkling in the sunlight. Everything seemed to have an orange hue, as though the town was bathed in a warm ray of sunlight.

People walked about at a leisurely pace, smiling and chatting. Many wore elegant robes of burnt umber, with a red tree emblazoned upon the chest, and back.

The people here were stranger than in Concord City, or Frost Arch, or indeed anywhere I had ever been. What was stranger still, everyone seemed to be accompanied by an animal. Not regular animals, like dogs, birds, or rats. No, I had never seen these kinds of animals before in my life.

A woman passed, and I saw that she had a cinnamon ferret upon her shoulder that was jabbering away in rapid French. I stared after them, and the ferret seemed to notice me gawking at him, because he said ‘pas d'âme,’ in an undertone as they walked away.

Jack’s head turned this way and that as he observed our surroundings.

‘This place is strange,’ He said with wide eyes.

‘Why does everyone have an animal with them?’ I wondered aloud, ‘And why could that one talk?’

Jack shrugged and stared at a man who had a leash in his hand, but nothing on the end of it. Instead, the collar floated above the ground of its own accord. As they passed, the invisible animal on the end of the leash started barking at them.

‘Sorry,’ said the man passing. ‘He’s just a puppy.’

Jack and I slowed to a stroll and observed everything more carefully.

A little girl rode on the back of an astronomical bird the size of an ostrich, which ran down the street very fast indeed. A teenage boy sat on a bench while a golden fish swam around his head in thin air.

‘They’re amazing,’ I breathed in awe.

‘You know what, Ava?’ Jack said with a small crease in his brow, ‘I think I would be quite safe in saying, that you could bring Hawthorne here.’

I raised my eyebrows. ‘You’re right,’ I said. ‘He would not be out of place at all.’ A stag with legs as long as street-lamps walked by us, the owner riding upon it.

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