Doctor Who: The King's Dragon by Una McCormack

Author:Una McCormack
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
ISBN: 9781846079900
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010-07-08T21:28:19+00:00

THE KING’S DRAGON

put a finger to his lips. 'Take a look before you say anything more.'

'But, Doctor—'

'Pretty pictures! Free movie!'

Rory sighed, folded his arms, and leaned back in his chair. As he watched, high above him, the story of a brutal civil war unfolded. It was a war that had taken place millennia ago between people alien to everyone in the room. An ancient golden empire, ruled by the Bright Nobles of the Feond, was shredded by a violent revolution. It began on a small world at the fringes of their territory and spread across planets and systems and centuries.

The images shifted, and changed, showing the bloodshed on every single one of the empire's thousands of worlds, with the armies of the imperial families on one side, and the militias formed by its servants and bonds-people on the other. They watched as the habitations of the Bright Nobles were torched in the first attacks by the rebels. They saw the bloody reprisals, as the ruling party burned the ecologies of insurrectionist worlds into desolation.

They watched the agonies and destruction of total interplanetary war. And they sat through the vicious endgame, when the Imperial Lord of Light himself was at last caught in the catacombs below the Celestial Hall, trapped amongst the bones and the tombs of his

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