Isle of Dragons (Quest of the Nine Isles Book 1) by C. Greenwood

Author:C. Greenwood [Greenwood, C.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-09-24T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Flying through the clouds on the back of Skybreaker was a very different experience than when I had been carried semiconscious in his claws after the sinking of Corthium. From this position I could see everything, the vast stretch of blue above and the blanket of sparkling sea below. The sun reflected brilliantly across the water, making it look like a sheet of glass with distant white-capped waves rippling across its surface.

Once I recovered from my initial dizziness, I thrilled to the feeling of the wind rushing by. I was unfamiliar with the sensations of traveling at such breathless speed. Even the wisps of white fog we flew through were a new discovery for me, for they looked nothing like the fat puffy clouds I used to gaze up at from below. I had always imagined them as feathery, semisolid things but now I found them vaporous as smoke. Up here in the sky, there was nothing to slow us or bar our way, nothing to dodge over or under. Just the freedom of open space that seemed to stretch on and on forever.

Skybreaker seemed to share in my pleasure, for he grew calm now that we were safely away from the island. In my mind’s eye, I saw a quick flash of memories that could only have come from him, memories of an ancient time when the people of the dragon had been many and had flown the skies like birds. Our wings had been more than ornamental then, and we soared high and far, always side by side with our bonded dragons.

Through Skybreaker’s thoughts, I knew there was a reason flight felt so right to me. A dragonkind belonged to the sky as a fish belongs to water. Now that I tasted what I had been missing all my life, the de-winging of my childhood seemed crueler than ever. But I couldn’t be sad during a moment as exhilarating as this. Instead, I reveled in the warmth of the sun on my back and the feeling of the wind in my face. In my imagination I spread phantom wings, as if it was me and not Skybreaker propelling us forward.

But elation could only last for so long. As the hours passed, my excitement gradually dimmed and worry set in. Did Skybreaker really know where he was going? I had suggested a destination to him but I had no idea how well he understood me. He was certainly familiar with Port Unity. I had seen enough of his mind to know that. But the place he remembered from decades gone by might no longer exist in the same place. From a dragon’s-eye view, the seaport had been little more than an insignificant pile of driftwood bobbing on the surface of the vast ocean, its inhabitants tiny ants swarming across the wooden walkways. He had probably taken little notice of the floating civilization of the wingless off-islanders. These folk didn’t share my people’s special relationship with dragons.

I wondered what would happen if Skybreaker’s memory proved unreliable.

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