Dragon Swat (Steel Dragon Book 4) by Kevin McLaughlin & Michael Anderle

Author:Kevin McLaughlin & Michael Anderle [Mclaughlin, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2021-12-15T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

When she woke from her nap and checked the clock, it was almost five. She had to hurry if her planned ambush had any hope of working.

Kristen ate a piece of cold pizza from her fridge—she tried and failed to remember when she’d last ordered pizza, but judging from the tang of the cheese, it had been a while. She didn’t care, though. Dragon healing powers worked on food poisoning too. It turned out bacteria couldn’t really give you the runs when your body could create caustic fluids that ignited into flame. She would’ve eaten more but she couldn’t go into this with a full stomach.

Despite it still being fairly early, it was already dark. Winters in Michigan were bleak. The nights started early and stretched late into the morning. Streetlights illuminated dirty snow and wet streets. She knew there were places where winter was beautiful—Windfire’s mansion came to mind—but the city was definitely not one of them. Cars, hundreds of thousands of people, and snow simply did not fit together to make pleasing scenery.

Luckily, she could fly above it. She transformed as a bus drove past. Shocked looks from a group of kids made her smile as she rose higher and higher until once again, she was enveloped in cloud.

She found she had a vague sense of direction. Even in cloud cover, she could tell north, south, east, and west and had a fairly good sense of distance too. Stonequest had explained it as a function of the Earth’s magnetic field, which made her think of pigeons, but he hadn’t liked being compared to flying rats any more than most people did.

It was a good thing she wouldn’t have to deal with him or any other dragons tonight.

Before long, she sensed that she was nearing her destination—or, more accurately, she sensed that she’d traveled the right amount of distance. She plunged down through the clouds to find that she’d actually overshot her mark, but that was fine. The far side of the airsoft range was a wooded area and she could approach in secrecy.

She landed in the woods, transformed into her human form, and jogged toward the course. A normal person would have called it a sprint, but with her dragon abilities, it felt easy to her.

When she checked the parking lot, she identified a few familiar vehicles. Her old SWAT team didn’t all ride together when they were off duty anymore—no one had a decommissioned SWAT van like Jonesy had—but she recognized their rides just the same. There was Drew’s truck and Washington probably rode with him. Butters—despite his size—drove a tiny hybrid, perhaps unusual for a man from the south but not to her. He was the gentlest man she’d ever met. It didn’t surprise her at all that he was concerned about emissions and the effects of excess fossil fuels. Hernandez’s motorcycle wasn’t there—no doubt because of the temperature—but Keith’s dumpy SUV was. They probably traveled together. Apparently, they’d been a thing—or banging, anyway—for far longer than she had realized.

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