A Dragon's Quest: An Epic Fantasy Adventure (The Remembered War Book 3) by Robert Vane

Author:Robert Vane [Vane, Robert & Vane, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-14T05:00:00+00:00

Seventeen

The horde was relentless.

Day and night the behemoths and humans toiled to move the bridge-towers into position. The hollowings spread their huge constructions evenly along the portion of the river that was fordable, thereby creating a wide front for us to defend. More blood raptors flew from the west, circling over the hollowing army as it prepared its onslaught. The Mizu dug more trenches, but there were no more human reinforcements to come from the east. Newly arrived glasswings from Trishan, instead of promising relief, told of more unrest in Elasu’s domain, just as Jinu the spymaster had predicted. No more troops could be spared, and they wouldn’t have arrived soon enough to matter anyway. We would have to manage with what we had: dragons, horses, and soldiers. Alone, we would lose. There was no sign of Vengeance or the ghastrays.

Word of what I had done to Aragor’s corpse spread through the Mizu army, the original information carried by glasswings from Trishan, including the one sent by my own sister. I expected Gia to explode with rage. He didn’t. Indeed, the first time I saw him after I arrived, he looked at me with something like amusement. He thought as Rinxia did: I’d made a failed bargain that would ensure I could never become the Protector of Ni-Yota.

When Gia called his next war council, I wasn’t invited, but Rinxia insisted I come along anyway. I did, for her sake, and to irritate Gia. It was strange to be here without Harlan. I regretted leaving him, for his advice was valuable, as was his company, but my choice had been for the best. No matter what outcome tomorrow, he and Kiata would live another day.

Gia returned from a scouting mission along the river as the rest of us gathered. I’d been up in the sky doing much the same thing earlier in the day. There was no way to miss the sheer size of the force arrayed against us. Even Gia’s questionable mind grasped that we faced an enemy we couldn’t defeat in conventional combat.

“We’ll destroy the bridges,” Gia announced to the assembled as if he’d discovered a new way to prepare roasted black pig.

In addition to the dragons, Avix, Dianti, and Tia also gathered around a barely lit fire under the open air of the night. Legao had refused to attend, informing us that rest was more valuable than words. She wasn’t wrong.

I held the snort that wanted to escape my nostrils at Gia’s grand proclamation. “Trying to burn the bridge-towers didn’t work so well the last time.” Not to mention, you probably tried to kill me as well.

“If fire will not work, we’ll tear the structures apart,” Gia replied calmly, ever the voice of reason. “They are wood, assembled by human hands. They will crumble under the might of a dragon.” He stared at me with challenge in his eyes. “Any dragon will do, I suppose.”

Rinxia answered Gia. “Each bridge is protected by dozens of ballistae on the shore. We can expect swarms of blood raptors as well.

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