The Legend of Hobart by Heather Mullaly

Author:Heather Mullaly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Favored Oak Press
Published: 2021-03-16T08:49:35+00:00

Chapter 7

In Which Albert Walks on Water

When we woke up the next morning, the sky was a dark, heavy gray. I kept glancing up, waiting for the first drops to fall and Albert’s complaining to start, but nothing happened until late that afternoon. When the rain finally came, it fell hard and fast. We were wet to our skins within minutes and couldn’t see our own hands in front of our faces.

“W-we might as well s-stop,” I said, having to yell to be heard over the storm.

Hero and Tate nodded and pulled their silent horses over to the side of the trail. My horse moaned and complained. I couldn’t hear most of what he said but could guess the basic idea.

We all huddled together under a tree, the branches giving us little cover from the downpour. The temperature was dropping, but we didn’t have anything dry to put on, and there was no hope for starting a fire. Even Tate looked miserable. Which was a first.

“Well, at least things can’t get much worse,” he said.

Seconds later, we heard the first rumbles of thunder.

Albert started to shake. Hero’s horse, Virtue, began to move restlessly, her ears folded back flat against her head. Sparkles just stood there, looking as sullen as ever.

Hero stroked Virtue’s head, trying to calm her, but the horses became more and more agitated as the thunder rolled closer. Albert swayed on his hooves.

“You are not g-going to faint,” I told him, taking Albert by the nose. “It’s just a s-storm. It c-can’t hurt you.”

And then the lightning struck. I might not have been able to make a fire in that rain; but the lightning managed it without any difficulty. The tree above us burst into fl and the world exploded into chaos. The horses screamed and bucked, breaking the branch that held their reins. They bolted in a pack and Tate ran after them. Hero threw herself into me, and we both hit the ground seconds before a branch crashed into the place where I had been standing.

I expected a comment from her, but instead she just pulled me to my feet, and we started running after Tate and the horses. Another bolt of lightning hit a tree off to our left as we ran. More sparks shot out. The rain was slowing down, and the fire was growing. The fl licked at the trees, spreading and expanding as they chased us through the woods. I ran harder than I ever had in my life, with Hero racing along beside me, her dark hair billowing out behind her.

I saw the moment when the flames caught hold of her hair. I yelled. She whipped her head around to look at me, and her flaming hair swung with her. Hero’s eyes widened, and a small sound escaped her mouth. But then she was throwing herself down and rolling back and forth in the mud. I took off my shoe and helped her beat out the last of the flames. And then she was up, and we were running again.

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