Dragon Forged by Dan Michaelson & D.K. Holmberg

Author:Dan Michaelson & D.K. Holmberg [Michaelson, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2022-04-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

It was late. The darkness stretched out in front of Rob and his grandmother and, as they had started to approach the village, dusk shifted, and the lights faded. He didn’t see any candlelight within the village. No glowing, no fire, nothing to suggest the people were still even there.

His heart hammered as they approached. They were moving quickly but gathering another cask of firewater had taken longer than expected. He tried to work as quickly as he could, trying to fill up the cask as rapidly as possible, but even as he had filled it, the water burned him. Something changed in the cavern. When he returned, his grandmother looked over at him, a question in her eyes that he couldn’t answer.

The bodies of the two dragon skin were still in the cave. He was tempted to push them into the water, but he hesitated. If he did that, then he might contaminate the pond for the sprite. Considering the sprite had been the one to show him how to reach the firewater in the first place, he suspected the sprite was drawn to the pond. Probably because of the firewater.

As they headed back, reaching the edge of the village, he knew it was his fault they were getting there as late as they had.

His grandmother slowed, raising hand. “There is something off here,” she said.

“There’s been something off for a while,” Rob said.

He reached into his pocket and fingered the dragon tears Griffin gave him. Rob didn’t know how they worked, or whether they would work at all. But if it came down to needing a distraction…

“I think we must be careful.”

Rob’s grandmother had the cask slung over her shoulder and was moving more comfortably than him. He had been held up as they walked back.

It was her dragon forged body.

She was changing more than Rob realized. Most dragon forged expanded, growing wider, but she had not. And as they used their strength, there was a weakness that developed. There were limits to even a dragon forging. He didn’t see any such weakness in his grandmother. It almost seemed as if her endurance was greater than any dragon forged, as well. Perhaps it was the firewater.

“How are you feeling?” he asked as they reached the edge of the forest.

He hesitated, as did his grandmother, looking through the trees. They couldn’t just run forward. Not if there were dragon skin invaders there that they would have to deal with.

“Feeling?”

“You were sick for a long time, and I wanted to see how you were feeling. And…”

“And you are worried I consumed too much of the firewater.”

Rob nodded. “I don’t know what the other villagers are going to say to you.”

“That’s just it,” his grandmother said. “I don’t know what they’re going to say, but I also feel… Well, I feel different.” She flashed a smile and shifted the cask, moving it from one arm to the next. “I can carry this as if it were nothing. I keep waiting

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