Ash Princess by Eve Langlais

Author:Eve Langlais [Langlais, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eve Langlais

Chapter 10

After Kayda told Cam they’d be taking out a dragon, he practically ran out the partially blocked entrance. She would have thought he didn’t grasp the danger, except she knew he did. But a man who could heal like he did probably didn’t worry as much as other people.

They waited by the narrow slit for the dragon to return. In the tedious silence that followed, she couldn’t help but contemplate what insanity possessed her to offer to lead him to the tower.

First off, she’d lied about being superfluous for the exodus preparations. They could have used her around, not so much to help prepare but to offer moral support. Everyone was on edge and scared. No one knew what would happen. Everyone kept eyeing the barricaded door to the basement, fear radiating from them. They jumped at the slightest sound, waiting for a ghoul attack.

She should have been there to reassure them. Instead she was on a foolish mission. The tower was dangerous, and not just because of the dragon. Parts of it still stood but only precariously. The damage done to it since it was abandoned was severe. It was the first of their buildings to get taken over completely. The drake who’d chosen to use it as a roost was the biggest one of all. She’d once overheard her daddy say the tower was where the war started in Diamond.

The dragons had since won that war.

No one had ever managed to kill the big drake, though not for a lack of trying. Until her father died. The attempts halted then.

Now that she was older, it did make her wonder why her father was so desperate to regain the tower. What was inside the ruins that was worth so many lives?

The question had plagued her for a long while now. What if her father knew of something in there that could save them? But why then not tell people about it?

For the same reason she didn’t mention it as a possibility. False hope. It seemed cruel to offer it to the people who looked up to her most. That didn’t mean she shouldn’t explore every avenue, no matter how farfetched.

Or maybe not so farfetched. What was my father trying to accomplish? Would his daughter succeed in his place?

Not likely. If trained adults couldn’t do it back in the day, then how could she and one man prevail against an older and wilier drake? Had her father tried at night? Surely the drake had the same habit as the other beasts and returned to the heat of the lava at night.

Or did he?

In case he didn’t, Cam needed to see the reality of a smaller dragon to appreciate the danger of a larger one. He should know how they moved and attacked. How to kill it. Experience with dragons would help on their treacherous march to the border.

Killing the beast who’d claimed this ledge would make one less predator in the air coming after them. Win. Win.

She’d had very few of those lately, and she feared the tower would prove to be another dead end.

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