Dragon Within (Book One) by Kyra Dune

Author:Kyra Dune [Dune, Kyra]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Shadow Portal Books
Published: 2014-08-11T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

Our ride turned out to be a helicopter. You heard me right. A big, silver helicopter, which landed right out there in the desert. As it touched down, I threw my hands up to shield my face from the blast of sand I expected to have hit me, only to feel like a fool when it didn’t. Not because the sand didn’t blow, but because it only blew in the opposite direction, away from where Zack and I were standing. It seemed odd to me, but I wasn’t sure why at first. It’s not like I was an expert on helicopters.

The side door slid open and at first glance, I took the person who jumped out to be a girl of about twelve in a denim jumpsuit with a long braid of magenta hair hanging down her back. She waited until the blades stopped spinning, then came over to where we stood.

“Hi,” she held her hand out toward me. “You must be Abigail. I’m Alice.”

I took her offered hand and shook it. Up close I could immediately see my mistake. Alice wasn’t a child, she was a woman in her mid twenties. It was her height and slight figure which threw me. The top of her head barely reached my chest and she was built like a boy. Okay, maybe that last bit sounds kind of mean, but it’s true.

I wondered if she was a dragon too, and somehow the thought that it wouldn’t be a strange question to ask her brought everything home to me in a way nothing else had. I was actually starting to really believe I was a dragon.

Some of what I was feeling must have shown through on my face, because Alice gave me a sympathetic look and a pat on the arm. “I know this must be really strange and upsetting for you, but don’t worry. Everything is going to be fine.”

Easy for her to say. “So, you’re a...a dragon too?”

She smiled. “You bet. I’m an air dragon, like you. Come on.” She took hold of my arm and led me toward the helicopter.

When she said those words it finally hit me why the direction the sand was blowing seemed so weird. Because it wasn’t natural. Alice was making the sand blow in that direction and she was doing it with no apparent concentration at all. As if it were nothing to her to be so totally in control. It made everything I’d done seem weak and childish in comparison.

Once Zack had his bike stowed away and we were all settled in our seats, the pilot started the blades to whirring again. I leaned toward Alice, who was sitting opposite me, and asked, “Exactly where are we going?”

“To the airstrip where we rented this helicopter,” she replied. “Our plane is waiting for us there. Then it’s off to California.”

“Whoa, what now?” I guess I should have expected her to say that. After all, I knew from Curtis’ online friend that Zack lived outside Los Angeles, so it stood to reason we’d be going there.

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