Dragon Fury by Ann Gimpel

Author:Ann Gimpel [Gimpel, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ann Gimpel Books, LLC
Published: 2019-02-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Raene didn’t let on how devastated she’d been by what she overheard. What was the point? Collapsing into a maudlin heap wouldn’t change a thing, and it would deflect everyone’s attention away from what they had to do.

Hers included.

Food and spirits helped. She was feeling more or less like herself by the time she’d finished her meal. The fish stew was simple fare. Well-seasoned and filling. A few more biscuits would have been nice, but she could always make more.

When would that be? A caustic inner voice spoke up.

In between crises, she retorted and got up to carry their dishes to the sink. Krise and Aegir had cooked. Cleaning up was the least she could do.

Aegir joined her at the pump. “Leave those. We need to go to Arcadia. Druids are an understated lot. If they just now came to Da with their problem, it tells me they should have kicked the door open years ago.”

“Not so much understated as proud,” Krise corrected his son.

Aegir faced his da. “Do ye remember Cathbad?”

“Of course. The Druidic seer. First one, and by far and away the strongest magically. His son’s child was the one nourished by our pod.”

“Aye. Jonathan. Angus came for him.”

Krise narrowed his eyes. “I kent it. Ye doona approve?”

Aegir pushed his shoulders back. “Nay. The boy would have been better off with us.”

“Ye only believe so because ye grew fond of him,” Krise replied. “In the face of an all-out battle, the child is safer with Angus because the Celts will protect them both. Not that they care about the boy, but Angus is their pet seer-slash-lackey.”

“Did Cathbad ever serve in such a role?” Aegir asked.

“Verra briefly and afore your time. He told the Celts to piss off. That was when he dropped backward in time to escape their tyranny, taking Angus with him.”

“How’d this Angus fellow end up back here?” Raene asked. Myths had always fascinated her, particularly once she realized those in the stories were real people.

“I have no idea,” Aegir replied and quirked a brow Krise’s way.

“I’m not entirely certain, either. My best guess is Cathbad saw something in our time and sent Angus to check it out. While Angus was here, a couple of the Celts pounced on him, wiped his memories to cut off any retreat route, and put him to work. I’m sure they remembered Cathbad’s exit and made certain Angus wouldna escape their yoke. Years passed, quite a lot of them, afore he got together with Arianrhod.”

“That part of the tale, I kent,” Aegir cut in. “The Celts assigned the two of them to deal with a problem. Dragons were vanishing from the Highlands, and they demanded assistance from the Celts—”

“I thought they kept to themselves,” Raene interrupted.

“Normally, they do, lass, but this problem occurred on Earth. I suppose they assumed they needed some of us who were already here to address it. Regardless, Angus and Arianrhod met in Fire Mountain. Their attraction was instantaneous, and Jonathan was the result.”

“Which would be why you said the virgin part of Arianrhod’s claimed title was phony,” Raene murmured.

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