Last Dragon Standing (Heartstrikers Book 5) by Rachel Aaron

Author:Rachel Aaron [Aaron, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Urban Fantasy/Dragons
Publisher: Aaron/Bach LLC
Published: 2018-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

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Marci’s first impression when she entered the Sea of Magic as a living soul was panic. The magic here had always been chaotic, but what she’d seen before was nothing compared to this. Even safe inside Ghost’s protection, the currents were strong enough to knock her around like a bug in a jar. She wasn’t even sure which part of her body was her head and which were her feet anymore when a door suddenly appeared in front of her, the only fixed point in the moving, swirling, boiling madness.

She dove for it instinctively, nearly burning off her hand in her rush to get to the blessedly stable, normal-looking wood. The moment her fingers touched its surface, the Merlin Gate opened for her, and Marci tumbled inside, landing in a heap on the stone. She was still trying to stop the spinning in her head when a hand appeared under her nose.

“Bumpy entrance, huh?”

Marci looked up with a start to see Amelia standing over her, her face grim. “What are you doing here?” she asked, grabbing the dragon’s hand. “You’re supposed to be with Julius.”

“I was,” Amelia replied, hauling her up. “And I will be again, but this was kind of a crisis, so I bopped over. Shiro was going to kick me out on account of my whole ‘not having a Merlin’ thing, but now that you’re here, you can vouch for me.”

Marci nodded absently, too distracted by her surroundings to pay Amelia’s explanation proper attention. She was certain she’d come in through the Merlin Gate, but this was not the stone courtyard at the foot of the green mountain where she’d entered last time. Everything looked so different, it took Marci several seconds to realize she was standing on top of the flat peak of the mountain… which was no longer a mountain at all, but a tiny island in the middle of a vast and terrifying black sea.

“What happened?” she cried, turning in a circle. The mountain, the forest, the stairs, even the gate was gone. The place where she’d come in was just a line scratched into the stone. Beyond that, there was nothing but sea. Not the beautiful blue expanse from before, but a huge, rough, terrifying, tar-black ocean full of giant waves that would have been washing them all under if not for Myron and the DFZ, who were frantically holding the water back with a shimmering barrier.

“Novalli!” Myron yelled over the crashing water. “Help us!”

Marci rushed to obey, grabbing a fistful of magic and slamming it into Myron’s spellwork to help keep the ward in place. She was frantically trying to make sense of Myron’s maze-like patterns so she would be more effective when the other mage ran over. “Not like that!” he yelled in her ear, grabbing her fingers and moving them to press against the faint green lines rather than the blue ones. “Green is always ground!”

Marci shifted her magic accordingly. “Like this?”

He nodded and ran back toward the center of the island.

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