Lady Shadow's Ire (Shadow of the Dragons Book 2) by JMD Reid

Author:JMD Reid [Reid, JMD]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fallbrandt Press
Published: 2022-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

“Who are you?” Euddán demanded, stopping on the road and facing Dhaua and Thaaph.

Their heads both turned to face him as his hand rested on the pommel of Ishéen Stonetooth’s sword. Anger rippled through him. He was just starting to like these two, and then they’d said that. It all clicked in his mind just who Vounée’s father worked for. Who Tshar Ruan served.

“I knew you were waiting for us!” Euddán thundered. “You saw us get off the ship and marked us. You know what’s in Vounée, don’t you?”

The two didn’t answer. They faced him, the shrubwoman’s feet shifting farther apart.

“Do you work for them? This Apostasy? Are you the new hunters to pick up where Tshar Ruan failed?” He whipped his sword out of his sheath. As the armor formed around him, the stone plates settling with comforting protection about his body, he growled, “Are you working with Vounée’s father to keep hurting her?”

“Kya kyii!” Lumi cried and jumped before Euddán.

He glanced down at her, the sword gripped in an angry fist. She stared up at him with imploring eyes. He wanted to trust her judgment—she had never once led him wrong—but these two shrubs knew things they shouldn’t.

“We are not friends with Vounée’s father,” Thaaph said. “We don’t even know who he is save that he must be a member of the Apostasy.”

“We oppose those terrible people!” Dhaua shouted, her reedy voice squeaking. “We despise them. They destroyed our home. Friends of ours lie without arms and legs in the rubble of the temples, living in hopeless misery. Unable to move. Females who never grafted and couples bonded together. It used to be a sunny and warm place, and now there’s this cold pale over it. The Apostate polluted it!”

“Then how do you know who we are?” demanded Euddán. “How did you find us? You were waiting for us!”

“For her,” said Thaaph, glancing at Vounée. “We did not know about your existence, Euddán.”

“We still have friends in Aathuu,” Dhaua added. “One of them is a Questioner. Shaa . . . he regrets what he did that terrible day. He wishes to seek amends. He passes us information so we can do what little good we can. He told us that Tshar Ruan was dispatched to the Isle of Shy. To a village.”

“She did come,” Vounée said.

“And how did you know we would show up in Jwásh?” Euddán asked, not convinced at all. Their arrival was just too convenient. “Tshar Ruan didn’t know we were heading there.”

“A seer told us. A Revelation sorcerer. He gave us a prophecy that we deciphered. We believed you would come to Jwásh. We’ve been waiting here for two weeks.”

“Then you know what they did to me?” Vounée demanded. She rushed forward. “You can get her out of me?”

Euddán caught her arm in his gauntlet-clad hand and yanked her back. “They lied to us, Vounée.”

“We didn’t lie,” Thaaph said. “We are guides. We are here to help you escape the Apostasy’s grasp. To be free from them.

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