Death of the Dragon by Ed Greenwood & Troy Denning

Author:Ed Greenwood & Troy Denning [Greenwood, Ed & Denning, Troy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, General Interest, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780786918638
Goodreads: 49370
Publisher: TSR
Published: 2000-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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"Now!" a bristle-mustached lancelord shouted, his eyes on the dark form of the dragon gliding through the smoke.The catapults let go with deep thumps, their rocking making the rampart shudder underfoot as they let go their stony loads. Most sailed short to plummet down into the ruined western city, but a few thudded home. Nalavara the Red wheeled away in anger and vanished behind the smoke.

"Work those wheels!" the lancelord bawled. "She'll be back, and we'll look pretty silly if she can just glide down here and tear us to dog meat. Leap to it, lads!"

The sweating crews swarmed over the catapults, sweat-drenched muscles rippling in their bared arms and backs, but Alusair turned away. "Those won't touch the ghazneths," she snarled. "Too slow-and probably no harm to them if they do take a load right in the face."

"We're ready for them, Highness," a stern-faced war wizard assured her. "All of us are ready."

"Oh?" the Steel Princess said, whirling around to face him with one gauntleted hand on her hip and the other holding a warsword it appeared she was itching to use. "And just how do you intend to deal with them, sir wizard? They'll eat your spells like a wolf biting down a rabbit."

"If Your Highness pleases to see," an older wizard said calmly, "the gate is opening right about now. The ghazneths'll be here soon enough."

Alusair looked at him, lifting an eyebrow at his confident tone… then her eyes fell to the end of his graying beard. His fingers were locked in it, twisting nervously, already so badly tangled in the locks that most of them would have to be cut out of it.

"I'll stay," she said softly, "and be of what use I can."

An unearthly shriek rose up the nearest vent shaft, from somewhere in the citadel below, and the Steel Princess whirled around to face it. "What by all the waiting hells was that?"

"That," said the older war wizard, with something that might almost have been satisfaction in his voice, "would be the lady mage's pain as she opens the spell gate."

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