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By this time, ell away from the tracks, and it was extrehts Owen created a s in the air above his hand It worked to guide his way, but it left nized Ari because I now couldn’t see a thing

I could hear soruntled fairy giving the secret password to the hidden headquarters It was h the cavern The roar was followed by a burst of sulfur-scented flaht toward us

"Uh-oh," Owen said just before he doused his light and pulled me out of the flame’s path

Twelve

The flame exposed far more detail than I really wanted to see: scaly skin, yellow eyes, and sharp, pointy teeth I’ve never thought offor a knight in shining ar and clinging to Owen I figured I got a free pass on any girly behavior when it caons And that’s exactly what see us in this cavern There were several of the out of a scary s, and spiked tails

Owen angled hi the next burst of fla it to hover in a ball of fire just below the ceiling Although Oas reacting cal the circumstances, when I looked at his face, I saw that he looked ons didn’t seeht, which was lucky for us They were sidetracked by the ball of flame and didn’t appear to understand what had happened That bought us some time One of the beasts was between us and the only way out we knew of, but there was a niche in a cruree of shelter Owen shoved me into the back of the niche, then hid just inside it, shielding , because those , and there were more of them than I’d initially realized We ons lived in nests--which wasn’t the sort of thing I expected to find under Grand Central They kept roaring and breathing fire at us, and Owen kept deflecting the flames I kneas pretty powerful and he could probably keep doing that all day, but we needed to get out of there eventually if ere going to survive this If nothing else, food and water ht us, they’d have food taken care of, and I didn’t know if they needed water

"I thought the dragons in the sewer systeend," Owen remarked as he deflected yet another burst of fla in the air to round cavern look like a July afternoon in Texas The first ones were dissipating in a shower of sparks

"I thought it was alligators in the sewer systeon attack Eventually they were going to give up on the fla us without cooking us first

"That’s the cover story," Owen said

"Oh But this isn’t the sewer system, is it?"

"If you were that powerful, would you stay in the sewers for long, or would you find another place to stay? I’m sure there’s a hole in a sewer tunnel sootten railway tunnels"

"Good point" I tried to think of some way I could help "Need ht as well fall back on ht now, I think they’re guessing where we are, based on s the angles on ht help the reat idea, then, huh?"

"I doubt they can hear us over their own roaring, and sound bounces around in here But yeah, we ht want to limit conversation"

I supposed the situation could have been kind of ro et too romantic until ere safely out of there And then we’d both need a good shower before ant to go anywhere near each other for the draoodness you’re okay" scene I could tell ons got a clue, which wasn’t a good sign for us The head dragon swiped the air with one giant clawed foot, like it was looking for the hidden intruders "Not that I’ the flaot closer and closer to us, "but we probably ought to coet out of here Maybe you could create a diversion, or so"