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But then Kavinsky’s fire dragon broke off froaseous forear blast of noise, it collided with one of the flood laon, but the lamp capsized Shocked screams punctuated the air; the laht He’d leapt to his feet as the fire dragon hurled itself at another one of the lamps Flaht horror pluon For aacross the dirt, and then they were alight again

No one was really afraid Why weren’t they afraid?

It was ic, but nobody believed it was

TheThere were dragons fighting above theon screamed, the same horrible scream as before It sped tohere Kavinsky and Ronan stood by the car

"Stop it," Ronan said

Kavinsky’s eyes were still on it "No stopping it now, Lynch"

His furious dragon spun, wings outstretched Tearing along the drag strip, it pulled a stretch of fla off the roof of one of the Mitsubishis at the end As its claws shrieked on the ed into the air The movement flipped the car behind it, easy as a toy

Matthew?

On the other side of the strip, Gansey waved his ar Ronan’s eye Not in that one

"Tell me which car athered itself up It was obviously preparing to plummet down once more It was curious, really, how clearly he could see its eyes froht It had terrible eyes It was not that they were empty, but rather that when you looked past all the flame and smoke and more flames, you could see that deep down inside the eyes was really just more smoke and flames

There was a silence in the crowd

In that silence, Kavinsky’s laugh was louder than anything

A single scream erupted fro to decide if now, finally, fear was the correct response

As Ronan’s night horror flapped toward the fire dragon, Kavinsky’s s to its body Sulfur clouded from its mouth It was deadly like a cancer Like radiation It had teeth, but those were irrelevant

Kavinsky snapped his fingers Another firework shot up, s path between the two creatures It exploded above theht horror slaround, rolling into the crowd Now there was screa as people leapt out of the way The two creatures clawed their way over another of the Mitsubishis Into the air Back down again

"Ronan!" Blue’s voice carried, high and thin She had looked in another Mitsubishi -- still no Matthew The croas still scattering -- somewhere, a siren howled There was sothe world in its own i strip was brighter than before Every car a lantern

The fire dragon pitched toward Gansey and Blue

Ronan didn’t have to shout to his night horror It knehat Ronan wanted It wanted exactly what Ronan wanted

Save thes The two creatures sailed narrowly past Gansey and Blue

Gansey shouted, "Do so!"

Ronan could kill Kavinsky If he stopped Kavinsky, the dragon stopped But it was one thing to know this solution It was a very different thing to look at Kavinsky, his arms stretched over his head, fire in his eyes, and think: I could kill him

And most important, it wasn’t true

Ronan couldn’t kill hi Kavinsky’s arm, "We’re done Where is my brother? No more Where is he?"

Kavinsky threw his free hand out toward the Mitsubishi beside them "He’s all yours! You estured now at the tu him, Ronan scrambled to the car He pulled open the back door It was empty

"He’s not in here!"

"Booone up The fla out of the car like thunderclouds As Ronan slammed the door shut, Kavinsky scra and ecstatic

Pressing one hand to his concave chest, he fetched his white sunglasses fro his eyes The lenses mirrored the furnace around theon screaht horror

The creature turned directly toward them

And suddenly, Ronan saw it He sa every car but this one burned How the dragon had destroyed each of Kavinsky’s dreas here at the strip Ho it caht horror flew after it, less graceful, a bit of ash tossed in a nuclear wind

He heard thu, barely audible over the chaos

Mattheas in the trunk

Ronan bolted around the back of the car-- no, no, that wasn’t right, he needed to open the trunk froon It was flying directly for the the driver’s side door, he popped the trunk As he tore around the car, he saw Matthew kick the trunk open the rest of the way Rolling out, his younger brother stuainst the car for support

Ronan could son, all carbon and sulfur

Ronan dove for his brother He dragged him away from the car He shouted to Kavinsky, "Get down!"