Dragon School by Sarah K. L. Wilson

Author:Sarah K. L. Wilson [Wilson, Sarah K. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarah K. L. Wilson
Published: 2018-04-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

We spiraled upward slowly, following Kyrowat.

The trick is to get as high as we can. It’s a clear day. No cloud cover. If we get high enough, we might see other dragons.

How far would they be when we found them?

They could be very far. Days away, even.

Would we see the Feet of the River?

Sort of. Everything will look very small to you. We’ll mostly be scanning for movement, and by “we” I mean Kyrowat and me, of course.

Of course. Sometimes I wondered why dragons ever agreed to let humans ride them. We seemed to get all the advantages.

A long time ago, long before the Dominion, dragons were free and roamed the land without human interference. There were few humans then and those that there were lived mostly to the north of here. In those days, volcanoes were frequent things and tremors shook the lands. And in those days, the Ancients of Baoqueea – the nation that existed before Baojang – brought up Ifrits to exercise dominion over their enemies. Nations lay in ruins and people were shredded like stalks of wheat in the harvest.

We dragons suffered, too. We were unorganized and scattered. We were hunted down and destroyed by Ifrits. All but Haz’drazen, Queen of Dragons and her brood. She sought a new land for us to increase and find safety in the south where the red of volcanoes bloom in the skies.

It was there that she found a man – Haz, the first of the Dominars. Haz and his small nation made a truce with Haz’drazen- it’s how she received her name because she was just ‘Drazen’ before but when she adopted him she became ‘Haz’drazen’ or ‘Dragon of Haz’ - and together they routed the Ifrits and drove back Baoqueea. It was on that day that dragons and the Dominion swore one to another that we would forever be bound to the prosperity of the other. You give of your young and healthy and we of ours to form the dragons and Dragon Riders that defend the Dominion - and with it the safety of our shared lands.

As much as it pains me to admit it, there are some things that humans do better than dragons.

Such as?

I said I’d admit it, not that I’d elaborate.

I couldn’t help but laugh at that.

There. Hubric signals to us.

His signal said we’d be heading north by northeast two hours. I couldn’t see a thing except for the ground below laid out like a tiny carpet. I could barely make out the track of the winding river or see where it flowed into the gray sea beyond. The air felt too thin. It made it hard to concentrate.

Heading lower. Hold on.

We dove, following Kyrowat’s swooping trajectory and I was grateful when the air began to thicken again. What had Kyrowat seen?

I saw them, too. A group of about twenty Reds. They fly toward the coast – east - and south. Perhaps they have heard of the fall of Casaban and fly to her aid.

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