Dragon Untameable by Ava Richardson

Author:Ava Richardson [Richardson, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Laini flung herself at the door, but Tyr was faster, already yanking it open. They tumbled into the hallway. Master Lars was gone, transformed into his dragon form and lunging out onto a nearby balcony to dive downward, where the source of the explosion must have been. Laini stuck her head out and squinted into the darkness to see where he was going.

“The kitchens, I think!” she called to Tyr, and, as one, they pelted down the hall.

They dodged a huddle of frightened tamer trainees and shouldered past a handful of bonded dragon-tamer initiates outside the entrance to the kitchens. When Laini glanced at Tyr—who was staying by her side even though his long legs and physical fitness could easily have pushed him far past her by now—his expression looked set in stone. She thought she knew why. If Thea’s sonic boom had indeed caused the explosion, and anyone had gotten hurt because he hadn’t been nearby to stop her….

“Go!” Laini shouted, waving him ahead as she panted in exertion.

“Are you sure?” he called back, but his strides were already lengthening.

“Yes!” she yelled, and he bore down, knocking a diminutive teacher out of the way and skidding around the corner ahead of her.

After navigating a few more twisting, turning hallways at a sprint, Laini was forced to slow to a jog. Her classes here included a segment on combat and physical fitness, but she hadn’t been attending nearly long enough for her to be used to this sort of exertion. She was far more used to long, quiet evenings of mopping than running for her life. Though, the latter had been happening at a disturbing frequency lately.

At the end of the next corridor, she started to see hallmarks of damage. A painting lay broken on the floor here; a crack ran up the wall there. She winced when she saw that, especially, laying a sympathetic hand on the Akademy’s wall as if it were an injured friend. She hurried her steps, dodging piles of rubble as she came into the kitchens.

A massive chunk had been blown out of the wall. And, beyond that, she saw that one of the large balconies jutting out from a nearby tower was shorn almost in half, bits of rock still crumbling away from its edge. Several dragons wheeled through the air around the mountain, injured students held in their talons as they flew quickly toward the healers’ wing. Other students—tamer trainees from the newest, youngest class, and barely teenagers from what Laini could see of them—were huddled on the far side of the balcony, some of them screaming or crying, cut off from the exit by the debris. Several dragon students and masters were flying toward that group to evacuate them. The scene was one of chaos—the loud, panicked kind that Laini could hear even from this distance.

Inside the kitchen itself, though, it was deadly silent.

Laini’s gaze swiveled, alighting on the only three people who were still in the massive room. One was

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