Dragon Force: The Complete Series by Ashta Lucia

Author:Ashta, Lucia [Ashta, Lucia]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-07-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

“If you say she looks just like me, then she must also look like Traya,” Rane told Dean. “Because, I mean, we’re all siblings, so if she looks like me, it’d make sense that she’d also look like Traya.”

“Right,” Dean said, and by the way he said it, I realized he’d deduced the only secret I had left, the biggest—and deadliest—of them all.

But I didn’t think Rane noticed, and that was probably a good thing.

Dean locked eyes with me for an instant, then looked up and behind me. “Any news?”

I turned. Shula was leading the others over to us. “None, which is worrisome.”

“Indeed,” Dean said, even though I didn’t understand how no news wasn’t a good thing. We didn’t want news of the shadow man, or of Pumpoo, or of any other threat the man could muster.

Dean asked Rane and Traya, with a look to each of them, “You said that Pumpoo was turning part of the Dragon Force over to his side. Did you notice how many?”

“Wait, what?” I looked to my siblings too. “You didn’t tell me.”

Rane shrugged. “It didn’t come up.”

It didn’t come up. I had lots to say about that, but it wasn’t the time, and I didn’t want to do it in front of the dragon charmers. I didn’t have nearly the life experience and maturity they did, and I didn’t need to make it any more obvious than it already was.

Rane said, “It was hard to tell. There were some who joined him right away, like Yoon.”

“I never trusted Yoon,” I said.

“But you can trust him,” Dean said.

“How? He has adoration for the chieftain.”

“Appearances aren’t always what they seem.”

I could definitely agree with that, though I still didn’t trust Yoon, no matter what Dean said. I remembered that Dean had said Yoon’s secret behind his allegiance to the Dragon Force wasn’t his to tell, but I didn’t trust easily. I might not have the experience the dragon charmers did, but I had enough to know that misplaced trust could be as deadly as any poison.

Dean addressed Rane, “Continue. So after Yoon, how many of the Dragon Force do you estimate joined Pumpoo?”

“I don’t know, really I don’t. It was hard to tell, but if I had to guess, I’d say half.”

“Half joined him when he asked for their allegiance?”

“Aye. Every one of the new trainees went with him, even those who looked hesitant at first.”

“They’d have to. If they hesitated, then that means they didn’t really want to. But they were smart.”

“They were smart to join Pumpoo’s forces?” I interjected. I’d meant to keep quiet, but I couldn’t. “I don’t understand. What happened?”

Shula, who’d moved to stand behind Dean in the near darkness, said, “If they hadn’t, Pumpoo would punish them.”

Dean said, “And they don’t yet have the skills developed to oppose him. The smart thing would be to join Pumpoo and then figure out what to do. If Pumpoo gathered the whole village to ask for volunteers to join him—”

“That’s not volunteering,” I said.

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