Flame Bound (Seeking the Dragon Book 2) by Alexis Radcliff

Author:Alexis Radcliff [Radcliff, Alexis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

Kaden

I paced my room for hours in a rage, trying to convince myself that kindling Ella’s spark was the right thing to do. Of course I wanted to send the girl home. Ella was the fourth human who had come to us with the spark since I’d arrived in Alkazar, ten years prior. The faces of each girl who’d come before her were etched into my memory forever, along with their dying screams. Faye had been the first.

She’d been the youngest before Ella: a girl of nineteen, beautiful, raven-haired and blue eyes as bright as crystal. She’d stood straight-backed and proud the day Valeria brought her before me and told me it was my duty to teach her. And as for me, I’d been frightened and alone. A youngling dragon of thirteen years, having barely escaped the Frystfolk reaving, and a guest of the royal family by the ancient laws of the shining city in which I’d sought refuge. King Alvarion and the Aethlings needed me. My magic bolstered the protections of Alkazar, but I hardly knew how to use it then. My only companions until Faye came were Rhys and Valeria, my guardians and advisors, and they’d always been the cold, unchanging immortals that they remained to this day.

Was it any surprise that I’d been smitten with Faye? She’d been so warm and full of life. It was never true love, but I’d admired her all the same. I’d been only too happy to instruct her in the ways of magic. We spent countless afternoons together, laughing and practicing our art, and I knew she’d thought of me as a little brother.

I still simmered with rage when I thought about how the Aethlings had used me then, how they’d thought I was too young to tell me what I was doing. They hadn’t prepared me at all.

Faye knew what would come. I remembered Valeria whispering into her ear, and I remembered the solemn cast of her face the day that King Alvarion carried us both to Thrakongarde. She’d tousled my hair and smiled her sad smile as we took our places around the sacred brazier of the watch-fire. I remembered her eyes blazing cerulean blue as the King told me to begin the working of the dragonsong, as Faye joined her magic to mine. She concealed her pain until it was too late to stop, until the hellish flames of my sorcery poured back across our bond and burned her heart out from the inside. Her eyes faded to a dull orange and her mouth dropped open. She fell to her knees, screaming while the magic carried us both along to the end. The tears poured down my face, but the dragonsong had been impossible to stop.

Afterward, all that had been left was a pile of ashes. I didn’t even get to say goodbye, because Faye knew I would have stopped if I had known what was to come. I cared too much for her.

If I’d been a man

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