Legends of the Sky by Liz Flanagan

Author:Liz Flanagan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

So? What did Kara say?” Tarya demanded as soon as they were alone. She was buzzing with unspent energy, her hair a wild halo around her face. Heral clung to her shoulders, tense and alert, his spiny red tail whipping from side to side.

“Wait! Let me get the door closed.” Vigo slid the large dragonhall door into place and came to join them on the low seats near the stove, with Petra at his heels.

Milla noticed Vigo’s caution and it unsettled her.

“She wasn’t well. We only spoke a little.” Milla tried to recall Kara’s exact words. “But one thing is clear: the dragons don’t belong here in the palace.” She untied her cloak and scarf and let Iggie loose on the sawdust. He stretched and rolled on his back, then pounced at Belara playfully.

“Oh, really?” Isak said. He was copying the duke’s drawling intonation. “How very convenient for her. I suppose they belong exactly where she is?”

“No!” Milla felt instantly defensive of Kara. “She said they should be in the city, with the people, not trapped in the palace.”

“They’re not exactly trapped,” Tarya said. “Or only as much as we all are.” She spoke those words with feeling. Her left heel was drumming anxiously on the floor.

“She’s bound to say that, isn’t she? If they’re in here and she’s out there.” Isak sounded scornful, draping his fingers for Belara to paw at. “Can you imagine the riot if we took the dragons down to the marketplace? They’d be crushed. Aren’t we taking good care of them?” He tugged at Belara’s gold ears now, and she closed her eyes in bliss.

“I thought you wanted to know how to care for the dragons? How not to repeat old mistakes? Their lives depend on it,” she said, her heart sinking. How was she going to get them to listen to her?

“We do want to know,” Vigo said. “We’ve been reading all day in search of this kind of information. Go on, Milla.”

“Look, this is the person who spent her whole life guarding the eggs. Her friend Josiah was killed for them. We need to listen to Kara.”

“We will listen, if it makes sense,” Isak said. “But you have to admit the dragons are safest here. Duke Olvar said they have to be here, something about the water?”

“But they almost died out last time, living here!” Milla hated the way he was looking at her. “When they’re grown, they belong in the city: that’s what she said. And there are wells of spring water all over the island.” She had never felt at home in the palace, and now she knew: she wasn’t supposed to! Nor was Iggie.

“Come on, then, Milla, tell us,” Tarya said, serious now. “We’re listening.”

So Milla repeated Kara’s story. When she got to the part about Rufus killing Silvano, she called Iggie to her using the five-note tune and kept her hands moving across his scales as she spoke.

In the silence that followed, Milla noticed Vigo had slumped forward, his head resting on his arms, while Petra nuzzled at his chest, trying to reach his face.

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