Chapter 20, the fire breather
Leafcloud slipped into the dark hole. She came into a dark, huge, cavern. Ashfur was in front of her.
She looked around. There was a path through the darkness, but it was raised up, and on either side were drops that extended down for ever.
It was thin, about a tail-length wide, but very long. There were a few places where the path had even crumbled away. One gap would have to be jumped.
Ashfur inched along it on his belly, then stood up and trotted carefully along it. Leafcloud followed him.
Leafcloud looked down and saw that on both side were endless drops, with a bright fiery glow coming from the distance. They were in a huge rock cave, because there was a jagged stone roof about thirty fox-lengths above them.
They were halfway along the thin path and about to jump the big gap when there was a trembling on the path and a burst of fiery light. Roars filled the air.
Leafcloud turned around, and saw a huge, crimson black creature running, flapping its wings. It was hard to see, as if it was made of light, and then it blew out, and fire was everywhere.
"Run!" Ashfur bellowed, letting Leafcloud slip past him. She pelted a little ways along the path, then turned back to see that Ashfur wasn't following her.
The stupid tom! He was standing, guarding Leafcloud. The huge creature leaped, and Ashfur was falling off the path with a loud shout of fear.
The creature ignored him, and came rushing toward Leafcloud. She turned and fled, her whole body shaking. She could feel heat on her flank, and she was scared, terrified.
She ran, her legs moving so fast that they were blurred. She felt pain on her shoulders, and she thrashed through air, then skidded into cool darkness. The roaring had stopped, and the warmth too. She struggled a little, she was lost in heaviness. She couldn't open her eyes, but she could picture Ashfur falling down, falling, falling, falling, and she tried not to think of him trapped down there forever.
Her eyes hurt, and so did her whole body. She couldn't move, but she had one thought, and she knew it was true, even though she had no proof, that Shadowflight was the only one to come out of the tunnel still conscious.
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