For Auld Lang Syne [Cairngorm Dragons 4] (Siren Publishing Classic) by Clair de Lune

Author:Clair de Lune
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Siren-BookStrand, Inc.
Published: 2014-09-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Hamish awoke with a start. He wasn’t alone. Who were these people who intruded upon his privacy? He lay still in his dragon-form and listened. There were two of them. What were they here for? The torches flickered in the tunnel as they approached the cavern. Hamish lay still and waited. They came out into the cave where he lay, and stood looking around. One was thin and the other stocky.

“We need to find a shelf near the tunnel. We want to be able to find it again easily, after all,” the thin one said.

“Well, they won’t be getting it back unless they pay what we ask,” the stocky man replied.

“It’s so ironic that they will pay anything to get it back. They’re a superstitious lot. It’s been used in marriage celebrations for so long, they will all be convinced no marriage can be happy if the bride doesn’t wear this thing,” the thin one said.

“There’s a ledge here. Put it up there and let’s be off. I don’t like this place at all. I feel as if I’m being watched.”

“Don’t you go all old woman on me. There’s no one here and no one but us knows about this cavern. Just make sure you don’t go and blab when you are in your cups.”

“I can hold my drink better than you. Just you take your own advice,” the stocky one retorted.

While they were arguing the thin man reached up and placed a bundle on a ledge, and then they went back into the tunnel, still arguing, and their voices faded in the distance. There was too much rock between them and Hamish for even a dragon’s ears to catch their words. Hamish changed into his man-form. It was well past time to go and get more supplies in any case. His stock of torches and food was low. Taking his tinder-box, he lit a torch and made his way carefully to the ledge. He didn’t want to risk a fall, the sound of which might well bring the two men back into the cavern. He opened the wrappings, uncovering a golden torc. It was heavy and beautifully made. He rewrapped it and moved it to a ledge on the other side of the cavern. He would go and find out what it was, and why the two men were so convinced they could hold it to ransom. He walked along the tunnel, dousing the torch before he reached the exit. He hid his torch and tinder-box on the high ledge he usually used, and walked out into the sunshine. His eyes took a while to get accustomed to the glare. He’d been underground for a couple of weeks. He moved a safe distance away from the tunnel-mouth, and then he changed into his dragon-form. His powerful wings and sinewed hind-legs thrust him into the air. He circled the mountain, which he now knew to be Galdhopiggen. Then he flew off to Alesund. Outside the settlement he changed to his human-form, and, clothed in his plaid, he went into the market square.

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