500 Kingdoms 2 - One Good Knight by Mercedes Lackey

Author:Mercedes Lackey
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2010-11-27T02:20:38+00:00

One Good Knight

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“And these contacts of yours—what are the odds of them succeeding if you do find a place to set an ambush?” she asked. Then she raised her eyebrow.

“The priority is to silence the Princess, of course. I don’t like the cost of having to summon another dragon if the Champion kills this one, but if Andromeda escapes outside Acadia and tells her story, we will have a true disaster on our hands. She was already suspicious enough on her own, and any half-competent Godmother or Sorcerer would certainly put the facts together quickly once she lays them before her—or him.”

You will have a disaster on your hands. By the time anyone figures out I was the one who summoned the dragon in the first place, I will be on a ship halfway to the Fortunate Islands. “You are quite correct, Majesty,” he said aloud. “So long as Andromeda is silenced, the most important issue is taken care of.”

He groped for the Summoning charm just around his neck. Made of dragon scale (and how lucky he was to have found the scale from a living dragon!) it was warm to the touch. So the dragon that had lost it was still alive. “We might not in fact need to summon another dragon. The populace is sufficiently cowed, and sufficiently in sympathy with your sacrifice, that the murmurs of discontent have stilled. I believe that just on the basis of having been forced to give your own daughter to the dragon for the good of the Kingdom, the people’s sympathies will remain with you no matter what else happens.”

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