Dragons' Onyx by Richard S. Tuttle

Author:Richard S. Tuttle
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy, Young Adult, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Publisher: KBS
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

A Time for Deceit

Bin-lu groaned as he opened his eyes and saw only darkness. It took a moment for him to remember what had happened to him. His hand reached to the ache on his head, and he felt a small bump. His mind raced to figure out where he was and what the dangers were that awaited him. He did not move nor make a sound. His ears penetrated the silence surrounding him as he sought clues to his location. He could hear nothing.

Bin-lu rolled over to his hands and knees. Slowly he felt the damp floor until he came to a stone wall. A portion of the stone wall crumbled under his touch. A small stone clattered to the floor, the small noise it made sounding loud against the total silence.

“So you have awoken at last,” Shrimp said from the darkness.

“Shrimp?” whispered Bin-lu. “Where are you?”

“That is hard to explain to someone in the dark,” replied Shrimp. “You were caught like an amateur. You should leave the spy work to me.”

“I don’t have time for your attitude right now,” scowled Bin-lu. “I have discovered things that must be known in Tagaret. You have to take a message there for me. Can you find your way out of here?”

“Of course I can find my way out,” quipped Shrimp. “I am a fairy, not a human.”

“It doesn’t matter what you are,” retorted Bin-lu. “If they find you here, they will kill you. At least one of us has to get out of here alive, and it is your turn. Listen while I tell you the information that needs to find its way to King Arik.”

“I am not leaving you,” stated the fairy.

“You don’t strike me as the type of fairy who cares what happens to me or any human,” sighed Bin-lu. “Take the information before they come for me. If you stay, they will kill you.”

“I am not taking the information,” declared Shrimp, “and I am not staying here with you. When you are ready to leave, let me know.”

“Let you know?” echoed Bin-lu. “I would leave now if I could. What game are you playing?”

“No games,” replied the fairy. “When I get a job to do, I do it right. My job is to accompany you until you return to Tagaret. That is what I plan on doing. Stand up and then don’t move.”

“All right,” Bin-lu said, “I am standing.”

Bin-lu felt a tickle on his left ear.

“That was me,” announced Shrimp. “Turn towards me and walk slowly until you reach the door. I will be right back.”

While Bin-lu was walking with his hands out before him, Shrimp found the small airspace above the door and squeezed through. A torch near the stairs going upward lit the hallway outside the door. It provided the scantest of light, but it was enough for Shrimp to see the wooden bar that locked the door to Bin-lu’s room. The fairy hovered in the hallway while he cast a spell to levitate the bar upward.

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