Called by Dragon's Song (Return of the Dragonborn Book 3) by N.M. Howell

Author:N.M. Howell [Howell, N.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Dungeon Media Corp.
Published: 2017-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Three days later, Andie and Saeryn stood at the entrance to the Black Grotto, on the southern coast of Noelle. It was the most sinister looking place Andie had ever seen. Every inch of the environment was blacker than any night sky she’d ever laid eyes on: the stone, the grass, even the water flowing through the grotto and the walls of the grotto itself. The air was thick and moved in acidic layers, the result of some dark incantation. They had not seen or heard a single life form within a hundred kilometers of the place and even the dragons, bravest of beasts, are unsteady here.

A day and a half before, Andie and the party landed just behind the suburban outskirts of Mastield, a wealthy southern city and the home of House Urania. The journal said the portal was hidden somewhere on the family’s property, House Urania being rather paranoid and extremely suspicious. When they couldn’t figure out how to proceed after an entire afternoon and morning of thought, Andie took a page from Yara’s book and broke into the estate, finding the head of the family enjoying a brandy in the cigar room. He was the oldest son of Rasputraenir, whom the Chancellor had killed at the University. After a painful episode, he’d told Andie of a legend he remembered. The story ended with the family’s most prized possession being stolen by an unknown group of infiltrators and taken away to the south. Andie and Saeryn searched the papers in the family’s vault and discovered a watchlist of the family’s enemies. Andie had heard of most of the groups and knew most of them didn’t have the resources or foresight to know House Urania had a portal, let alone break in and take it. Saeryn was able to exclude a few more. Eventually, they were left with a list of five.

They spent the next day moving through Mastield and interrogating the groups on their list. Two of the groups had lost all their power and disbanded years ago. One had been completely forgotten when all of its members were slaughtered in a retaliation attack by a rival group. Another group were still together and still neck deep in dastardly deeds, but had absolutely nothing useful to say, even when Andie started breaking her bones. The final group on their list had split into organizations, one involved in corporate espionage and the other in the sale of black market goods. The latter sounded most promising, but Saeryn went to speak to the corporate group anyway. By the time they regrouped this morning, Andie had gotten the location of the “large, round thing” the black market group had stolen and Saeryn had turned the police onto the corporate espionage group.

Now they were there, at the Black Grotto, hesitant to go in. When they finally decide to enter, Saeryn instructed the warriors to follow them at a distance of one hundred meters. Just as a precaution.

“I’ve seen some shady places in my day,” said Andie.

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