The Fire Within by Chris D'lacey

Author:Chris D'lacey [D'Lacey, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Children's Books, Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic, Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9), Dragons, Ages 9-12 Fiction, Children: Grades 4-6, Supernatural, Animals - Mythical, Science Fiction; Fantasy; & Magic, Squirrels
ISBN: 9780439672436
Publisher: Orchard
Published: 2007-03-01T08:00:00+00:00

His what? thought David, glancing at the dragons in the picture window. Was he dreaming it or had their ears just pricked up?

"Oh Lucy, you know it inside out."

"It is my birthday, Mom."

There was a pause, time enough for David to adjust his position before Liz said, "All right, but just a minute -- and only if you promise to go to sleep afterward."

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"I promise."

"All right, then, close your eyes. You know what to do."

"I have to dream back."

"Way back," said Liz. "To a time when the special people lived. A time when dragons roamed the earth."

David instinctively closed his eyes. Immediately a picture formed in his mind of something akin to prehistoric times. He began to imagine a dust-baked plain, littered with rocks and sparse vegetation, a stream winding through rocky outcrops, a world alive with animal calls, the sun beating down from a pale blue sky.

Into the picture, Liz put a character: "In a cave on the side of a hill lives a girl. She has flowing red hair and pale green eyes."

"Guinevere," said Lucy. "I dream her, Mom."

David nodded. He pictured her easily, barefoot in a shimmering robe.

"She is coming to the stream to bathe," said Liz, "when, in the distance, a roar is heard from the ice-capped mountains."

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