Assassin's Blade by Melinda R. Cordell

Author:Melinda R. Cordell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dragons, magic, epic fantasy, YA fantasy, historical fantasy, fantasy
Publisher: Rosefiend Publishing
Published: 2022-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

FIA WANTED TO SEE THE world, for the rest of her life, from a dragon’s back. But not as a soldier in the endless wars. Not to kill.

Ryelleth had already had enough of that.

She first met Ryelleth as a war dragon who needed to be rehabilitated. She would never forget that day when her dad came hurrying up to her in the courtyard, puffing. “Fia? Fia, come with me. I have something to show you.”

Curious and puzzled, Fia left her games – but to her surprise, her father led her to the horses. “Is this what you want me to see?”

“No. It’s at the farm.” The farm was a quarter’s day’s ride away. “Let me get my cloak,” she said. She ran and got that, as well as some bread and cheese for the trip. Soon they were riding through the city. They passed through the first gate, then the second, into a hilly land of vineyards and trees. The air smelled of green and soil and occasionally blossoms, and she breathed deeply of the fresh air, so welcome after the stink of shit and piss in the city.

They rode with a small, armed troupe who busily kept an eye out for highwaymen and bandits. She rode at Babbi’s side, talking, but burning with curiosity the closer and closer they got, until the fields of the family farm appeared, and the fortress that stood guard over it, a place where the farmers and workers who lived outside their walls go run to when villains came roving.

They rode up to the walls, where her father’s soldiers waved to their compadres, and all were admitted through the eastern gate. Fia rode in behind her father ...

... and her horse whickered and danced, despite all of Fia’s best efforts to soothe her.

“Hold, hold,” she said, trying to calm her palfrey. The other horses were behaving badly, with their ears pasted against their skulls, snorting.

Fia leaned across her neck. “Babbi, what is here?” Now she could smell something strange in the air inside the enclosed walls, something that smelled acidic and burnt. Worry twisted her stomach.

Her father dismounted and gave his horse over to the stabler who came hurrying up. “Let him take your animals. I’ll wager they won’t want to go farther.”

Fia handed her reins over and followed her father around the corner of the keep to a courtyard behind it ... and stopped in astonishment, her heart in her throat.

A real live emerald dragon sat in the center of the courtyard, wings held away from its body like a wounded bird.

She’d never been this close to a dragon before. She had no idea they were this huge, gigantic.

The dragon was grimy. Its emerald scales were blackened with soot and scorch, and it was busily grooming a black emerald wing.

Fia took two steps forward, her mouth open.

The great dragon turned its head and regarded the new visitors. Fia knew that her eyes must have been the size of sunflowers, but she couldn’t stop staring.

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