Earth's Hope by Ann Gimpel

Author:Ann Gimpel
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy
Publisher: Ann Gimpel
Published: 2015-03-06T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Fionn put some distance between himself and the worst of the carnage. Once the interference from too much magic discharged in the same place cleared enough, he raised his mind voice and called Dewi.

Her peevish reply rattled his brain almost at once. “What? I’m busy. While we’re at it, where the hell are you? There are demons to kill.”

“Aislinn’s gone.”

Silence and then the thrum of wing beats. Dewi didn’t even try for grace as she dropped to the ground so close to him she nearly knocked him over.

“How could she possibly be gone?” Dewi demanded. “She was on my back, left when I told her to—”

“We’re wasting time. Ye’re bonded to her. If ye’re so certain she made it safely back, find her.”

The blast of power from Dewi scalded him, and Fionn retreated a few feet, waiting. Part of him hoped for a miracle, but the other part knew Aislinn wasn’t anywhere nearby. She had an unmistakable energy, and he’d know if she were here.

Dewi shuffled around until she faced him, her face etched with worry, lower jaw gaping open. “I don’t understand.”

Fionn shook his head. “Neither do I, but we have to find her.”

The dragon’s head drooped. “I haven’t the faintest idea where to look.”

“Narrows it down nicely.” Fionn didn’t bother to trim the rancor from his voice. “’Tis your fault. Ye put her at risk.”

Dewi’s dark eyes whirled dangerously fast. “Now you’re the one wasting time.” She took a step closer and shook a foreleg at him. “Life is risk, or haven’t you noticed?”

Fionn swallowed hard. “Ye’re right. Let’s think this through rather than tear each other to shreds. The only way Aislinn could have vanished between your back and the ground is if someone else intervened with magic. There was so much power being jockeyed about, probably ye wouldna have noticed someone lurking nearby.”

Criticism never sat well with the dragon. Fire streamed from her jaws, missing him by a narrow margin, but Fionn held his ground. “Get hold of yourself, Dewi. Aislinn needs us.”

More fire. The dragon shook her head and a shrill, keening cry escaped her. “First my brood and now this.”

Fionn gentled his voice. “I know ye love her, Dewi. I do too. We have to find her and Rune, who apparently got sucked into wherever Aislinn went.”

“Should we go to Perrikus’s borderworld?”

Fionn thought about it. “Probably not. ’Tis the first place they’d think we’d look. Nay, my bet is somewhere on Earth. One of the oldest strategies is to hide something in plain sight.”

“So here in the Old Country, back in the States, or elsewhere? Earth’s a big place.”

Fionn watched the dragon. At least she was settling down since her eyes, while still whirling like pinwheels, had slowed. “They’ll probably go where they have an established presence. Problem is I’m not all that familiar with the dark gods’ history. I have no idea where they lived afore Odin imprisoned them in Asgard. ’Twas only after they escaped that they ended up on the borderworlds.

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