From Human to Dragon to God by Eric Vall

Author:Eric Vall
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-04-04T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

As I exited the tunnel, the wind gusts stopped, and the rest of my group stood outside the cave and looked at each other in shock.

What the fuck had just happened?

We were evicted by an ancient wizard lady apparently.

Mona laid crumpled up on the ground at River’s feet, and he murmured to the warriors as they stared in confusion.

“She’s alright,” River told the other centaurs. “She’s just shaken up. We need to get her back to the palace.”

“No,” I cut in. “We don’t have time to go back to the city, and she wouldn’t want that anyway.”

“How do you know what the queen would want?” River sneered.

“Because I know all she wants is to find Archer,” I shot back. “If we go back now, it could mean losing him. We need to keep going and take her with us.”

“We don’t even know where to go!” The centaur commander threw his hands up in exasperation. “How are we supposed to just keep moving?”

“We don’t know the exact place,” Alyona chimed in, “but we do know how to find it.”

“And how’s that?” River asked as he raised a brow at her.

“The Oracle said it’s just like the tear we had by Hatra, right?” Alyona faced the centaur commander. “So, we’re going to have to work together. We know what the tears feel and look like, and you know the land.”

“Then what are we looking for?” River demanded.

“It feels like imminent death,” I growled as I remembered the last experience we had with a tear. “There are probably no animals near it, since it practically oozes with evil, and their instinct is to steer clear of it.”

“For Demi-Humans, you probably sensed something that wasn’t right, too,” Laika added, and her gray wolf ears twitched atop her head. “You probably avoided it without even realizing it.”

“And if you did get close to the tear, it smelled awful.” Alyona wrinkled up her nose as if she could smell the miasma as she spoke. “Like rotting fruit and decaying flesh.”

“Excuse me,” one of the centaur warriors nearly whispered and raised his hand. “I think I might know the place you’re describing.”

“Well?” River prodded him. “What did you see, Jager?”

The warrior named Jager stepped closer to the rest of the group, and his long, golden braid laid over his shoulder and grazed his belly button. His human torso was extremely muscular, and his tattoos rippled as he moved. He didn’t have as much ink as River, but he had quite a bit covering his skin. His horse half was the same golden color as his hair, with one patch of brown on his back that looked like a saddle. His eyes were the same color as sapphires, a deep blue that sparkled when he spoke.

“On a hunt a couple weeks ago, we ventured further out because of the kidnappings,” Jager explained. “A few miles out from the city, near the Dandelion Gates, there’s a place none of us wanted to go.”

“The Dandelion Gates?” Alyona gasped with excitement.

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