Dragon School_Dire Quest by Sarah K. L. Wilson

Author:Sarah K. L. Wilson [Wilson, Sarah K. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Dragon
Publisher: Sarah K. L. Wilson
Published: 2018-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

I was growing glad for the water by the middle of the next day. The city was still only a silhouette on the horizon, growing larger and then smaller and then larger again in the wavering way that things far off do under the heat of the sun. From the bowl to the city, the landscape was sculpted rocks in towers or on stepped plains, in dips or heaped in piles, but all the same uniform reddish brown without a river, creek or lake to break it up. Trees – if they ever had existed here – had given up years ago and grass huddled in dried tufts, only the most stubborn surviving.

We stopped three times for breaks, the dragons needing more water than usual. I even wet the scarf Leng had given me, twisting it around my head to bring me some relief from the relentless sun. It still smelled faintly of him, and I clung to that smell like a precious memory – one tiny reminder of home.

You will return before long.

But would I? Home felt far away. I wouldn’t even speak the language in the city we were aiming for.

I’ll help.

Worry mingled with anticipation as the city slowly grew in the distance. After seeing so many skycities, it felt strange to see one sprawled across the ground almost as if it had been left there accidentally.

“Abalang,” Renn said at our last stop. We still had almost half the water we’d left with, even sharing it with him and Ahummal. We’d stopped one final time for water as the city approached. Raolcan assured me we’d be there within the hour. “Keep an eye out for Sentries. They won’t hurt you before questioning you - unless you give them a reason to – but they won’t like the dragons. They think the skies belong to them.”

“Will they think we’re enemies, flying in there like this? I’d hoped to sneak in.”

“You won’t be able to arrive undetected, but people of many nations come and go. Some from the Dominion will be on dragons. I doubt the guards will think it’s strange.”

“Even with a war going on?” I was getting more nervous.

“As in, do I think that they’ll see two lone riders as an invasion force? I doubt it.”

I wasn’t so sure as we launched into the sky again. I’d be suspicious of an enemy in the sky above my city. Which reminded me - why did the sentries think the skies were theirs?

Because there aren’t many dragons in Baojang. If there were more of us, we would show them how wrong they are.

Well, what could they do from the land to prove that? Shoot arrows? Wave flags?

What makes you think the Sentries are on the land?

Because they weren’t dragons. Or were they?

Oh no, they aren’t. Try not to freak out when you see one.

Wait. What? The city was so close now that I could pick out individual buildings. They rose in slender, carved spires and rounded domes. Around the city, a sleek, white wall rose high, narrow slits carved into it from high above.

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