A Portal for Your Thoughts by Jeffrey M Poole

Author:Jeffrey M Poole [Poole, Jeffrey M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, adventure, action, Humor, fantasy, magic, Science Fiction, dragons, Time travel, lentari
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Several hours later Steve and Cecil found themselves sitting wearily on an overturned log looking north. Steve unstoppered his water bag and took a long draught. He nudged Cecil and passed him his water bag. Steve pointed north, through the trees, at the open valley floor not twenty feet away.

“Do you see those large boulders that are several miles away?”

Cecil rose to his feet and cautiously approached the edge of the forest. He stopped short of exiting the safety of the trees and held a hand over his eyes.

“Yes.”

“One of those is the door leading down to the dwarves. We just have to make it out that far.”

Cecil brushed by him and strode confidently out into the bright sunlight.

“Then there’s no time to lose. Let us be off.”

Steve grabbed Cecil by the arm and gave him a violent yank back inside the quiet forest.

“Okay, just because you don’t see any dragons doesn’t mean there aren’t any nearby. The last time I made this trip we were guided by an actual dragon and even he warned us that hostile dragons were nearby.”

“So how are we going to make it?”

Steve sighed. “Ordinarily I’d say we should just run for it. However, the dragons fly quicker than we can run. By a long shot. They spit fire hotter than I can absorb, and they are so large and powerful that they can hammer us into the ground like railroad spikes.”

Cecil gave a hollow laugh. “Might you have any good news to impart?”

“Not really.”

“Can you run, Steve?”

“With a dragon on my tail I’m pretty sure I could run across water.”

“Then do try to keep up.”

“Excuse me?”

Cecil broke free of Steve’s grip and ran out across the valley floor.

“Cecil! Get back here! Cecil!!”

Resigned to a lung-bursting sprint across the valley floor, Steve tore off after his companion. Twelve minutes later, gasping, wheezing, and clutching a painful stitch in his side, Steve smiled to himself. The large boulders were nearby. They had finally caught a break! Cecil had been right. There were no dragons nearby. What luck!

Movement out of his peripherial vision had him veering slightly off course so that he could see around Cecil’s running body. One of the closest piles of boulders had started shimmering and changing shape. Whether Cecil had detected movement and had unwisely decided to run towards it Steve didn’t know, but what he did know was that Cecil was in for a reality check that was clearly wyverian in nature.

A long sinewy tail seemed to materialize out of thin air and placed itself directly in Cecil’s path. Cecil, already winded and gasping for breath, collided with the tail and was knocked backwards by nearly a dozen feet. Low growls sounded as the heavily scaled black tail continued to extend out to the left. More shimmers appeared and the bulk of the dragon’s massive body materialized. The dragon growled again as it thumped its stinging tail against the ground.

The majestic jet black dragon lifted its enormous head off the ground and surveyed the area.

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