Light for the Darkness (The Dragon Guard Book 9) by Jada Fisher

Author:Jada Fisher [Fisher, Jada]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2023-07-24T23:00:00+00:00

8

IMPOSSIBLE ALLIES FROM IMPOSSIBLE PLACES

Ten’s answer came as the thundering sound increased in volume until reaching a climax, buildings collapsing several blocks away. Luxion whirled, growling, but Ten could only watch in wonder as the gear-wyrm station began to lift off the ground. A monstrous, gray head appeared above the surface.

“By the Lux…” she gasped, eyes going wide, wider, then possibly the widest they’d ever been in her entire life.

The head wasn’t quite draconic, wasn’t insectoid, and wasn’t quite mammal-like either. It was a strange conglomeration with three jaws and something…mechanical across its several eyes.

Like something out of a legend, the entire battle froze as the creature kept rising out of the ground—higher, higher, higher. Its neck was armored and segmented like a dragon’s, and yet it was longer than Luxion’s entire body, from snoot to tail.

Four of its legs broke free from the ground, sending cobblestones and station pieces everywhere. The limbs stuck out of its round, brown-and-gray body, tipped in too-wide feet that looked more like giant shovels than anything.

“The gear-wyrm,” Ten whispered, almost worshipfully. The gear-wrym is alive?

So many things clicked into place for her all at once: the strange device over its head, the clearly man-made posts drilled into its spine, what was very clearly a foundation and several gear-wyrm carts atop it.

Her whole life, she’d been riding atop an enslaved, living creature and hadn’t even known it?

There were far too many things to dissect with that, and once the battle was over, Ten knew she definitely needed to. For the moment, though, she had a battle to win and needed to take advantage of the element of surprise. In the long, lost history of Epoch Sol, she was sure there wasn’t a surprise quite like the one she’d inadvertently caused.

“Let’s greet our friend, Luxion.”

He let out a sound that she couldn’t interpret, but he flew forward anyways. The creature was still trying to extricate its rear legs from the ground and on the short flight to it, Ten saw several other gear-wryms rising through the city.

By the Lux, no matter what happened to Epoch Sol, they were going to have to rethink their entire public transit system.

“Hello there, gorgeous,” Ten murmured as they reached it, shakily reaching out her hand. She knew without a doubt that the giant in front of her was the strange, sorrowful call she’d heard, even if it was hard to get her head around it.

It lifted its head, allowing Ten to see the tech around it more clearly. She didn’t see any gears or steam-valves—not that she was an expert—but it didn’t look like the ancestors’ catwalks, reservoirs, or any other crystal technology she’d seen either. So, what, had the wyrms been trapped down there between when the Great Cataclysm survivors began to lose the knowledge setup by those who built the shield and when it was lost entirely?

That meant this beast was thousands of years old at minimum. Had it truly been trapped and forced to carry the citizens

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