Dragon Knight by Jenny Schwartz

Author:Jenny Schwartz [Schwartz, Jenny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BluA
Publisher: Jenny Schwartz
Published: 2016-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

It had made it personal for Lewis, too, but he didn’t tell Gina. He felt responsible, though. The Group of 5 wouldn’t have sent a fire mage after her if he hadn’t let himself get caught up with her dragon and his not-so-considered plan of utilizing Gina’s hacking skills.

He owed her protection, and without magic, he couldn’t deliver it.

The Collegium guardians weren’t his personal security force—and no more than he would Gina appreciate being shadowed by them. So they weren’t a defense.

Morag had to show him how to use the Deeper Path for more than popping in and out of places. At a minimum, he needed to know if his translocation just worked for him or if holding onto someone, he could bring them with him. Then he and Gina could never be trapped.

The image of the cruise ship he’d saved in the North West Passage played in his brain. He’d seen the stricken vessel after the unnatural storm abated. He’d been aboard the rescue mission. Magic burned he might have been, but he’d been a functioning, trained pair of hands for manual labor. The exhausted remnants of terror on the survivors’ faces had shown him the horror of helpless captivity.

To be at the mercy of forces beyond your control was part of life. But to be battered by powers directed by evil intent…that was soul-crushing.

He walked into the under-the-stairs closet with Gina, and out to Morag’s chamber.

Gina seated herself at the table and opened one of the two laptops she carried.

He walked three steps away and let the chamber’s other dimensions carry him further as he shifted into clarity of sight. He could still see Gina and the silver tinsel that linked her laptop to the internet. Curious, he followed that tinsel and found a deeper layer, one flashing with numbers and logic, structures he couldn’t comprehend.

“The human internet crudely mimics the universal ordering of information,” Morag said. “I noted the fire mage’s intrusion on Gina’s home.”

Lewis glanced at Gina, who worked on, unaware of Morag’s presence or the conversation. “Would you have saved her?”

“Non-intervention.” Pale yellow smoke gusted from the dragon’s nostrils. “But Gina’s home has been in her family many years. Dragon knights before her have lived there or visited family in it. Three of them, including Gina’s aunt, have travelled the Deeper Path. They sunk protections in multiple dimensions around the house. Look at its borders with clarity of sight.”

So Gina was truly safe in her home. Tension that had clawed at Lewis’s gut relaxed. “I still need to learn.”

“Yes.” The dragon unfolded her vast wings. “Watch how I change your three dimensional reality.”

Four hours later he was cold through to his bones, but what he had learned…it made the magic he’d burned out seem like a child’s toy: shiny and comforting, but limited. Now he could ripple the world, plucking things from one dimension to change their place or shape or some other characteristic in another dimension. What seemed far away or unrelated in three dimensions, might be closely linked in five dimensions, or even the same thing in six dimensions.

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