Dragon Chameleon: Color of Victory by Sarah K. L. Wilson

Author:Sarah K. L. Wilson [Wilson, Sarah K. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarah K. L. Wilson
Published: 2019-05-29T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Flying over an army wasn’t as simple as it sounded in my mind’s eye. By the time we reached the city, we were mired in flying golems and fireballs thrown from the Magikas below.

We’re being hit! Saboraak cried as she spun away from an attack.

I bit back a moan as her claw dug a little too tight into my shoulder as she dodged, but it only lasted a second before a dragon scream ripped from her throat. I looked above me to see her wing alight from where a fireball hit her and then we were spiraling down to the ground below. I swallowed, trying to clear the golems out of the way for her fall, but there were men and women below us, too, their Magika robes billowing as they darted in between the golems.

We were at the base of the city, so close to where Aqeq and the Heads of Houses watched the siege – from a small cluster of pavilions sited on a small hill – that I could almost pick out faces from their pavilions. Human soldiers ringed their tents and formed up defensive protection in a low make-shift log wall – barely the height of my waist – and trenches.

I glanced toward the Dominar’s flying army, but I couldn’t catch sight of them with Saboraak spinning so quickly.

Skies and Stars!

My feet hit the ground first and I was running before I had my balance, trying to get out of her way as her belly hit the ground. Behind me, I heard Zyla screaming and then there were dragons descending all around, nursing injured wings and tattered tails, flaming and flaring at the surrounding golems.

I sang at the top of my lungs, forcing golems back while Nostar and Lenora dismounted, weapons in hand. They were circling the dragons, lining them up in a defensive position while Zyla and Letina spilled water over burning wounds and applied salves. I hadn’t had a chance yet to tell her how glad I was to see her.

“You might not get a chance. This is a famous last stand if I’ve ever seen one,” the mimic said.

Hold on. Help comes!

But the humans were charging us now, and there was nothing I could do about their martial fury as I flung golems back, wrenching their souls from them by the dozen. Nothing that I could do to stop the surge as I fought to keep the magic-made creatures back. I saw Devind slip in the mud and Nostar caught him, pushing him behind his own body as he fought with the other arm to hold back a charging enemy soldier. I saw Lenora pushed back with Janes as a second surge rushed forward. She looked to me, eyes wide as she retreated.

And then a second voice joined my song. Bataar? No. It was Nostar, singing with me, lifting his voice. A soprano joined us. Zyla?

I stumbled backward and a hand caught my arm as Zyla pressed past, staff at the ready to defend me, Stef at her side, brandishing her own staff.

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