Dragon Mates: Dragon Knights (The Sea Captain's Daughter Trilogy Book 3) by Bianca D'Arc

Author:Bianca D'Arc [D'Arc, Bianca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: epic fantasy romance
Publisher: Liefde Press
Published: 2017-01-02T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

When the meal concluded, Seth and Hrardorr dutifully trekked up to Seth’s family quarters to see his mother. It was a short visit, filled with awkward questions, but Hrardorr didn’t hold it against Seth, or his busybody mother, for which Seth was grateful. After that, he had to check in with Bronwyn to make sure she was all right.

Hrardorr opted to go with Seth because he wanted to see as much as he could of the Lair and the people he’d been dealing with for months. Hrardorr greeted the old healer, thanking her for her efforts on his behalf when he’d first arrived. He then stood back and let Seth visit with her for a time, learning that she had more than enough help now.

Seth knew Bronwyn was trying to reassure him, but Seth left the short meeting with his mentor feeling displaced. As if he was no longer needed now that there were more able helpers available.

Hrardorr paced quietly at his side as Seth navigated them around the Lair, giving Hrardorr the tour of the place he’d never had before, even though he’d lived there for a while. Hrardorr asked a few questions about things he wanted to see, but otherwise kept quiet, allowing Seth time to process the changes that had been wrought since he’d left home on his big adventure.

Bronwyn had received not one but two apprentice healers. One was a journeyman healer from the Temple. Her name was Thalia, and they stumbled across her in the hallway during their tour. She was joined by the other newcomer, a gifted young girl from Castleton, named Kylara, even before they’d finished exchanging greetings.

And there they were. Seth was uncomfortably aware that these two had replaced him. No, they’d more than replaced him. They’d made him completely and utterly superfluous. Both had healing gifts and superior training. Thalia alone would be bad enough, but Kylara was essentially a female version of Seth himself—able to bespeak dragons and having grown up in a Lair. Only she was younger and had a true gift for healing. So she was even better than Seth at being the apprentice.

Seth was polite. Cordial, even. He thanked them for stepping into the breach and helping Bronwyn deal with his absence. He answered their questions about some treatment he’d helped with on one or two of their chronic patients, but he could see they were asking more out of kindness than any real lack of knowledge. He could almost see the pitying looks in their eyes.

He had to get out of there.

“Forgive us, ladies, but Sir Hrardorr and I need to move on. It was very pleasant meeting you both, and thank you again for taking such good care of Bronwyn and our friends here in the Lair.” Seth made all the right noises, trying to be as gracious as possible, while inside, he was dying a little.

They let him go with little more fuss, and he led Hrardorr upward toward one of the lesser ledges where casual fliers launched from for practice or pleasure flights.

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