A Legacy of Dragons by Robert Stanek

Author:Robert Stanek [Stanek, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Reagent Press

Chapter 7

A knock on the door startled Adrina. She spun around. "Yes?"

"Adrina, is everything okay?" Xith asked. "I heard something break."

She moved to the door, but didn't open it. "It's nothing. I dropped my looking glass."

"The mirror from Imtal? Your mother's?"

"An accident," Adrina said to reassure him, still hesitant to open the door. "I overslept. Why didn't you wake me?"

"You looked so tired last night. I thought you could use the extra sleep."

Adrina put a hand, palm facing outward, to the door. "Yes, and so much better today. Thank you for that, but aren't we late for today's deliveries of medicines and supplies?"

Xith moved away from the door. Adrina thought that perhaps he was tending to the spit over the fire. "No deliveries today."

Adrina started picking up the pieces of the broken mirror. "No deliveries?"

She cut herself and cried out.

Her outcry brought him running into the room, shouting, "What's happening? What's happening?"

Adrina frowned, looked up from where was kneeling. "Nothing, I cut myself on the glass. That's all."

Xith glanced down at her hand and the blood dripping from her fingers onto the floor. "That won't do. Won't do at all."

He waved a hand in the air, spoke words she couldn't quite hear and then touched his hand to hers. A moment later when he pulled his hand away, the cuts were gone and the blood had dried.

Adrina smiled. Other than the battle the night before, it'd been some time since she'd seen him work magic openly. "It would've healed."

Xith turned his attention to the mirror. He said a few words, held out a hand with fingers outstretched. The broken pieces of the mirror rose off the floor and began reassembling themselves. It took but a moment and then the mirror was whole once more.

Finished, Xith studied her face. "Now don't tell me that would have mended itself too."

Adrina wrapped her arms around him, kissed his cheek. "Thank you. Oh, thank you. It was my mother's and I've so little left to remember her by as it is."

Xith stepped back. "Well at least I was right about the rest. You look renewed today."

She gripped the mirror in her hands. Looking at her reflection, she realized she did look renewed, even if that was thanks to the potions and lotions. "I feel renewed."

"Good, good," he said, retreating from her room and moving to check the food and the fire. "I've hastened the cook time on this. Nearly done. Would you mind setting the table?"

She put the looking glass on the bedside table and stepped into the living area. "But so much magic today?"

He turned the hoar hound shank on the spit over the fire. "Considering the magic unleashed yesterday, I think it's safe to say every hunter and foul creature across this endless ice is headed for the canyons."

"But Vilmos and Ærühn?"

He poked the tubors with a stick, from his pleased expression she guessed that they were done or nearly so. "If those two did as told, they should arrive soon. May even be in time to join our meal.

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