The Starbender Cycle 2: Book 5 - Hotter Than Dragonfire

[Excerpt from The Starbender Saga - Cycle 2: The Chronus Chronicle - Book 5 - “Hotter Than Dragonfire”, by Fetcher McMarvin]

Sulphurous wind tore through Trevor’s hair as he and GrimWing plummeted into the heart of Mount Ominous. Sweat glazed Trevor’s furrowed brow, consternation washed over him as the heat intensified.

“Trevor! It is okay my noble friend! I know there is no choice and you must recover the Starbender Prism!” GrimWing shouted over the roar of the wind and lava.

Trevor never expected the dragon being held captive by the Dark Abbey to be sentient, to talk, to call him friend, yet here they were, plummeting into the heart of the hottest volcano in all of Kelvyria.

Trevor needed GrimWing’s majestic dragon heart to open a portal between dimensions, to get back to Empress Tourmaline, to find the Starbender Prism and return home. The dragon’s scales were impregnable, however, and the only way to get to his heart was to find a substance hotter that dragon fire.

Lava. The very substance into which they now plunged, the musical grinding hiss of lava eating into dragonscale.