Dragon's Hope by Natalie Grey

Author:Natalie Grey [Grey, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

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Talon leaned out of the way for Aryn to peer between the rocks with the tiny set of military binoculars. She gripped the rocks for balance, dizzy as the scope of the eyepieces zoomed and focused.

“What do you see?” Nyx’s voice was low. She crouched behind Aryn, presumably to tackle her and keep her from running away.

The two Dragons had been watching Aryn like a hawk for hours. When she woke up in the bunker, it was to find Talon and Nyx nearby, conveniently placed between her and the door. If she was Cade, Aryn reflected wryly, she might have been able to get away from them—but she had neither the speed nor the combat skills to get past one Dragon, much less two. They’d been emphatic about tying her up before they left to scout, until she pointed out that she knew the contents of each nondescript building better than they did. Even now, they seemed half-sure she was about to go running down the mountain to find Cade.

They didn’t need to worry. Aryn had long since given up on that endeavor, beginning with the part where Talon refused to tell her just which district Cade was in. Aryn had a new plan now: find Samara, and ask her help in locating Cade. She’d left a message in the bunker in case Samara came back while they were gone; for now, she would have to wait.

“The building with the four raised corners is just documents,” Aryn told them.

“It’s huge,” Talon protested.

“There are a lot of documents.” Aryn laughed, a bit bitterly. Documents were part of the lifeblood of Ymir. Everyone needed papers to go anywhere or do anything, and checkpoints along the streets ensured that workers went only where they should. It occupied a lot of time, leaving even less for people to join the resistance—the penalties for missing or incorrect paperwork were high.

“Okay, what’s the one to the right of it?” Talon was marking things on a roughly sketched map.

“That’s one of the armories. It…wait a second.” Aryn tilted her head to the side and wiggled forward.

“What?”

“There’s something….” She was getting close to the edge and wiggled one of her legs. “Hold me up.” Someone’s hands grasped at her feet and she crawled forward until her torso hung out in the open.

Beyond the borders of Io, where the walls made an easy line to show who was where they shouldn’t be, there was a strange sense of movement to the darkness. It was something Aryn could not quite seem to see, no matter how sure she was that something was there. She frowned and dialed in the scope, trying to focus, clear her head. Why couldn’t she make sense of it?

“What is it?” Talon asked softly.

“It’s like the … darkness is alive.” Aryn wiggled her way back and stripped off the binoculars, holding them out and rubbing at her eyes. “It’s like when something’s filled with maggots and they’re all writhing around, only I can’t actually see anything when I look.

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