Dragon Quest (The Stone Crown Series Book 2) by Ava Richardson

Author:Ava Richardson [Richardson, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

Ymmen? Even my thoughts felt tired as I took another faltering step in the dark. I didn’t know how long the sounds of pursuit had followed us, but it had seemed like every time that I had been tempted to hunker down and hide—then the hue and cry had started up again with renewed vigor.

That Nol Baggar is tenacious, I considered irritably.

“He’s a hungry dog.” Ymmen’s presence swept into my mind, and immediately I felt a whole lot safer. Knowing that there is a dragon who’s got your back can do that… Even if Ymmen couldn’t help us directly, given the peculiarities of the Sea of Mists.

“The mists are retreating,” the dragon in my mind announced, although the news didn’t sound as though it filled him with joy (I could tell, as our communication wasn’t just words—I could feel the surface of Ymmen’s reptilian-mind next to mine, and sense his displeasure at something…)

“What is it?” I whispered, finally stopping and gesturing for Abioye—who also looked haggard and exhausted—to crouch on the grass beside me. I still felt a little like a taut bowstring however, expecting the sound of the Red Hounds at any moment…

“The fogs are growing smaller around the edge of this place, but I cannot see those who attacked you. They must have moved on, or deeper into the wetland, where the fogs are still strong,” Ymmen said irritably. His desire for vengeance against those who had tried to hurt me thrummed through me, and I felt embarrassed to have one so strong and so defiantly brave defending me. Just like Abioye did, too, I thought for a moment.

“Or they used the dragon salve.” My thoughts echoed his annoyance. Still, I guessed that they had now done what they had come to do, hadn’t they? They had scattered our expedition to the four winds, and perhaps managed to get their hands on Abioye’s mechanical dragon, too. What would Nol Baggar do with a dragon! My heart quailed for an instant when I thought about the possibilities of the Red Hounds riding mechanical dragons. But no, I consoled myself, they didn’t have Abioye’s necklace that powered it, did they?

“Some of your people made it out,” Ymmen informed me, but then he told me how many—only eight or nine (dragons apparently, weren’t big on counting exact numbers—to them, their thoughts were filled with ‘small’ or ‘enough’ or ‘too many’).

“Maybe the rest are still lost in the mists.” I swallowed, feeling a sudden lump in my throat. Had we really just lost almost fifteen souls to the mud pits and the blades of the Red Hounds?

“I will continue looking, and I will await your exit, little sister,” the dragon said in that always practical way that he had. I suppose that if he and I hadn’t been bonded, I would have found his nonchalance upsetting—perhaps even insulting, a little—as if the dragon couldn’t really care about the dangers that we faced.

However, being bonded as we were, I could sense that Ymmen’s

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