Chapter Seventeen: Possibilities
(Mid Chapter: Reilly and Lottie have gone through another portal and are riding in a coracle-blimp.)
They rode out the swell. When they pulled themselves up,
they could only see flames again, soaring above them like a tidal wave.
“Burned alive or buried alive!” Reilly shouted. “Take your
pick!”
“I don’t care for either option!”
“Then we need other possibilities—fast!”
Lottie gripped the side rope as she reached for her
Stelladaur. “This works every time. Why do I wait until circumstances are bleak
before I remember how powerful it is?”
“Don’t be so hard on yourself. I mean, sometimes I feel so
consumed with what’s going on around me that it’s hard to remember there are
any solutions at all.” Reilly smiled.
“Why are you smiling?” Lottie scowled. “It’s hardly the time
to relax and grin.”
“But that’s just it, Lottie. It’s impossible to see through
the flames if we don’t relax and look past them.”
“Whatever do you mean, Reilly?” She flipped her soaking hair
over her shoulders. “Will you stop speaking in riddles?”
Reilly ignored her comment and held up his Fireglass again.
“All things are possible, Lottie, if we look further.”
“Further than where?” she demanded.
"... than whatever is blocking our view." They ascended on another great wave of fire and Reilly looked into his Fireglass. " There's something ahead ... I can barely see it ... but it looks like ... "
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