Here There Be Dragons by Amy Sumida

Author:Amy Sumida [Sumida, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01J916P5O
Published: 2016-07-27T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Seren, the voice was soft and familiar, like an old blanket, and it came from within my head. My aching head. Seren, I'm so sorry.

“You,” I grumbled as I tried to sit up. “Now you wanna talk?”

The clatter of chains and searing pain accompanied my movements. I sucked in a breath and held it when that only made things worse. Alright, I could handle a little pain. It wasn't like this was the first time I'd had my ass kicked. In fact, this brought me back to my early years as an extinguisher. Breathe through the pain, my father used to say. No, not my father; Ewan, the man who I'd thought was my father. A different kind of pain lanced through me.

Goddess, I missed that bastard.

Speaking of Goddess... Had I heard her voice or was the pain making me hallucinate? I pushed back the pain and breathed through it, just as I'd been taught. Ewan would be so proud. Or just pleased that someone had beaten me. No, wait, he didn't hate me anymore. I seemed to remember him saying that. Right. He didn't hate me but he didn't love me anymore either.

I scowled as I opened my eyes and squinted into the dark. I knew this place. I'd been here before... when I'd first come to Fairy. But back then, I was on the other side of the bars. Actually, I'd been opening them, rescuing seelie fey from Castle Unseelie's dungeon. Uisdean was probably giddy now that he had me to replace those fairies I'd freed. And he could keep me there as long as he wanted, without the Sluagh rising against him.

I checked out my accommodations with an air of apathetic acceptance. The floor was dry and fairly clean but it was also cold, making my bruised muscles cramp. The wall however, was damp in several places. Not dripping, just damp enough that I didn't want to lean against it. To the front and sides were steel bars, going from the stone ceiling down into the stone floor. Cells stretched away from me to my right and across the small aisle from me was another length of them. Within those cells were the corrigan casters who had placed the breathing spells upon me and my Guard.

“Princess, we're sorry for what we did,” Beatrix called over to me when my gaze settled on her. “We didn't think anyone would be hurt.”

“Why did you think the dragon kings wanted me unprotected in their court if not to kill me?” I asked woodenly and they all cringed.

They weren't in chains like I was and they still had their protective veils on, though they weren't so clean anymore. It was hard to see their faces behind the material, what with the shadowy atmosphere of the dungeon, but their body language conveyed their regret clearly. Still, I didn't have the strength to forgive them. I was battered physically and emotionally. It took all my strength to breathe, I didn't want to talk.

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