Dragon Bones by D. K. Holmberg

Author:D. K. Holmberg [Holmberg, D. K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2018-06-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

A hundred or more people traveled with them now. Other smaller groups continued to join the longer they rode. Most rode horses, though a few rode in the wagons, carted along with all of the supplies. They moved slowly, not nearly at the pace that Fes wanted, but there was a particular cadence to it, almost as if they weren’t concerned about how quickly they reached the dragon fields.

But then, Fes and Alison couldn’t be only interested in arriving at the dragon fields. They needed to rescue Talmund. He was the one who knew how to find the dragon heart.

“Why aren’t we going any faster?” he asked Micah.

Micah had stayed with him, and it was either because he had been assigned to keep an eye on Fes or because he knew Fes needed someone to explain the rebellion to him. Alison had remained distant.

“There’s no way for us to go any faster, not with the wagons.”

“We could send scouts ahead. Carter will be moving much faster than this and since she has Talmund…”

Micah shrugged. “We’ve done that, but it leaves the wagons in a difficult spot. They need for us to provide a guard. Without us, the wagons are at greater risk of attack.”

“The empire?”

“It’s more than the empire you have to worry about when you get into the outer lands.”

“Really?” Fes looked around him. With over a hundred soldiers, they would pose at least a challenge to anyone who thought to approach. With the numbers the rebellion had, there would be enough to intimidate almost any attackers other than the empire. “Seems like there’s not a whole lot you’d have to be worried about.”

Micah shrugged. “You’d be surprised. The rebellion started as nothing more than a way for us to protect each other. We banded together, wanting to offer protections that the empire wouldn’t.”

Fes didn’t think arguing about how well the empire would protect everyone within its borders would work, not with Micah. He had the sense that he’d been hurt before. “And what do you think the empire owes you?”

“After what they’ve taken from us? Everything.”

“And what has the empire taken from you?”

Micah smiled. “You haven’t been around us long enough to understand. If you had, you wouldn’t need me to explain it to you. Most of us come from the same sort of place. We have ancestors who were pushed out of their homelands, destroyed in attacks.”

“How long ago was this?”

Micah arched a brow at him. “Long ago.”

“You’re talking about attacks that took place over a thousand years ago!”

“That doesn’t change that they happened. Entire people were destroyed, pushed out of their lands. You don’t think we should try to reclaim what was lost?”

Fes looked away. It was better not to argue with someone like Micah. This was a man who believed that they needed to counter what the empire had done centuries before. It was better to let go and make a living however you could. That had long been Fes’s plan. Working with Azithan made it easier.

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