Dragon Heart (Dragon Host Book 6) by Timothy Ellis

Author:Timothy Ellis [Ellis, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-27T16:00:00+00:00

Twenty Six

Jane put together a large dinner that night.

Both of our teams were there, but without partners. So were some of the other people, like Jill’s mother, who’d been on BigMother when they’d explored the bottom end of the spine some three years before. And so were Willow, Ger-Kar, and Ger-Rak, because dragons seemed to be at the heart of everything.

Leanne presented all the information we had so far while everyone ate. There was a tale there of dragons behaving badly, a species that might have been cockroaches experimenting to find something to counter them with, and the creation of the Darkness. Sometime later there’d been clashes between dragons and Darkness, and the dragons had lost.

At that point I announced I’d seen a fresco where a white dragon had led a Host against the Darkness and the fresco showed the white dragon dying, with the implication the entire Host had as well. Willow and the other dragons were not happy I’d kept that to myself, but I assured them there’d been no reason to tell anyone until now.

There we got into speculation. At some point the creators had lost control of the Darkness, and they’d started eating everything, possibly beginning with their creators. Then someone had locked them away, and in the process, had created the Gaia system the way it was now. It could have been the battle the white dragon had died in which finally triggered that. But we had no way of knowing.

Well, I did, and Haynes and Gitte did, but I could see on their faces they didn’t want to deal with that any more than I did. And for now, there didn’t seem to be any reason why we’d need to. Willow could probably do it as well, but I didn’t think it had even occurred to her that she could look at the past.

All except Willow and the two Ger had been to the Gaia galaxy, and we’d even visited the Gaia system without anyone knowing it. And all of us had been to the Last Hope system. Jon’s people had been beyond there, and my squadron there on patrol back in our early fighter days. The Ger had listened to everything without saying anything, but finally Ger-Kar looked at me.

“You all talk about the Darkness like it was real,” he said. “And before you all tell me it was, I think I should tell you our people had a myth about it as well.”

“Everyone has one,” said Jon. “Every species we’ve encountered seems to have a myth, legend, or people labelled nutcases who say they were real. And then they laugh at us when we insist they were real.”

“We’re not laughing. Why I mention it is our myth suggests they will return.”

“They did,” I said. “Almost a year ago in fact.”

The two of them looked at each other in shock.

“That’s not good,” said Ger-Rak.

“Why not?” asked Jane.

“It’s supposed to herald great change.”

Jon chuckled, and everyone looked at him.

“It did.”

That started everyone off listing everything which had changed in the last year.

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