Lighting a fire on characters

Over break I finished reading the Fire Within by Chris D'Lacey, and it was phenomenal! One thing I did not do in my last post was discuss the characters in detail. This novel goes deeper into the story of each character and the connections each character has to the dragon's fire. Now, for many of the characters (if not all of them) there connection to the fire is unclear. However, Mr. D'Lacey included hints and leads throughout the novel. I'll most likely not hit them all, but the rest are for you to find!

First on my list is David Rain, the skeptic tenant and main protagonist in the novel. The biggest clue given by Mr. D’Lacey happens when Conkers and Snigger are in the garden, running away from Caracturus. During said event, David is in his room typing up his story. Every event that David writes actually occurs in real life. It was as if David was creating real life events with his mind. This happens many times through the story. David has some kind of special ability that lets him almost control how events occur. To what extent can he use this ability is unclear so far, but man is that cool!

Last on the list would be the Pennykettles. They are clearly not normal. Liz creates dragons with her special dragon Guinevere, while Lucy can speak with the “clay” dragons. It is completely clear that they have some sort of connection to the fire of Gawain, but what that connection is goes untold. At one point in the novel, David ponders the idea of Liz and Lucy being direct descendants of Guinevere – the female that first caught the fire tear of Gawain – as a way of explaining their dragon like habits.