Dragon Assassin (Dragon Assassin Omnibus Book 1) by Slade Arthur

Author:Slade, Arthur [Slade, Arthur]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Dava Enterprises
Published: 2019-12-25T16:00:00+00:00

16

An Important Question

The swans would not fly near enough to Brax so that the three of us could talk, so we took the lead. Thord and Megan fell in a long distance behind us, but only a few wing lengths from each other. I couldn't hear their discussion, but whenever I glanced over my shoulder, they were talking.

“I found a book for us,” I said, deciding to start my own conversation.

“A book? You got a book?”

“Yes," I said. "Don't sound so surprised. I like reading, too. It's from the Avenus library.”

“You stole a book from the library?” Brax said. “All of Avenus will hunt you down and skin you alive for that evil crime.”

“No, they won't," I said. "The book was free.”

At this he was silent for several moments, though by the way his head moved I guessed he was trying to make sense of what I'd said. I wished I could see his expression. “A free book! The Avenians are wondrous people. For humans, that is. Show it to me at once.”

I pulled it from my cloak and leaned ahead, keeping one hand tight on his neck spike. I held it in front of his right eye. “Bartum’s Revenge? By Ptolemak! There is not a better adventure writer in all of Ellos. This is wonderful news.”

“I thought you’d like it,” I said, though I actually had no idea what his tastes in reading were. I slid the book into my knapsack.

"Well, life is worth living again," he said. He cleared his throat, which made his body rumble below me. "When you were in Avenus did you see a witch with stringy white hair?”

“Yes,” I said. “How did you know?”

“Oh, it was a guess,” he answered. Apparently winging through the air at a good clip didn’t tire him out, as he could talk easily. “A good guess, that’s all. Plus you have a charm on your eye and the spell still hangs about you. I recognize that type of stink.”

“You can smell magic?” This dragon ability wasn't in any of my books.

“Of course. I can smell a number of things.”

I didn’t know if he was hinting about my smell, which I hoped wasn’t that bad. I'd said the word that removed the eye charm because there was no use in having it on while we were in the air. “But how did you know what the witch looked like?”

He laughed. A dragon laugh is so throaty, and his long neck echoed with the sound. “They all look like crones. Probably they have charms that make them appear ancient and decrepit. A comely young woman could only sell spells and knickknacks to men. An old witch can sell them to everyone.”

“That makes sense,” I said. I was pretty certain she was as ancient as she’d seemed. One thing assassin school taught was that eyes could be easily fooled. But my dragon eye? I didn’t think so.

“Do you trust these other two?” He motioned with his head toward Thord and Megan. I looked back, wondering if his question would be carried along the wind to them.

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