Flight of the Dragon: a Dragon Fantasy Adventure (Dragon Riders of Elantia Book 2) by Jessica Drake

Author:Jessica Drake [Drake, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dynamo Press
Published: 2018-06-27T16:00:00+00:00

11

I spent the night on a hard cot in a jail cell, staring up at the ceiling and wracking my brain. The muncies had confiscated my lock picks, so there was no getting out, and lying around here while those cultists were on the street was driving me nuts. I needed to be out there, tracking down Red Beard so I could squeeze him for details. He was the only one, aside from Salcombe, who knew where that piece of heart was.

Unfortunately, the muncies had been entirely unsympathetic to my cause. The captain of the guard laughed in my face when I told him about the dragon god and the cultists, and invoking Captain Marcas's name hadn't helped. "I've already contacted the upper city guard," he'd sneered through the bars at me. "I'm sure someone will be along to take you back to your cushy new life."

Lessie had been beside herself when she’d come to meet me for our nightly flight and found me missing. I’d been tempted to let her storm the walls of the jail just to see the look on the muncies’ faces, but I knew I was already in big trouble. If they really had sent word to the upper city that I was here, then the headmaster would soon find out that I wasn’t at Tavarian’s hidden estate anymore.

Eventually, I managed to doze off just as the early grey light of dawn poked its fingers through the tiny window in my cell. But it seemed like I’d just closed my eyes when I heard boots clopping down the hall, voices in conversation.

“Yes, yes, open the door,” a woman ordered impatiently. I opened my eyes at the familiar voice, then sat up abruptly at the sight of Major Falkieth standing outside.

“Major!” Heat stung my cheeks as I jumped to attention. “I—I didn’t think—”

“That I would come get you myself?” she barked. Her steely eyes raked over my disheveled appearance, disapproval in every line of her hard face. “The headmaster received a report that you were spotted flying over Dragon’s Table and sent me down here to fetch you. I refused to believe you would be hiding out here, given the severity of your circumstances, but I see now that the report was correct. I am very disappointed in you.”

Anger sparked in my chest, warring with my embarrassment. “I wasn’t ‘hiding out’ here. Lessie and I have been scouring the city, looking for Salcombe’s piece of the dragon god’s heart. I was following a group of Salcombe’s followers tonight, and I heard—”

“I don’t care what you were doing,” she interrupted. “Mr. Lyton told us that he and Miss Thomas”—that was Jallis and Rhia—"escorted you back to Tavarian’s home, and that is where you should have gone. Since you did not, you must return to the academy at once. How can you even think of shirking your duty now, when war is upon us?”

“What?” Chills raced down my spine. “We’re being called to the battlefront too?”

“Many of the older cadets will be called to fight, certainly,” Falkieth said.

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