Lost Dragon (The Shadow's Dragon Book 3) by Dustin Porta & D.K. Holmberg

Author:Dustin Porta & D.K. Holmberg [Porta, Dustin & Holmberg, D.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2023-06-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

THE DRAIN

We are coming back, bondmate. Rime’s thought roused him, and he found that he was still tucked up underneath the wing of Apogee’s dragon. Volanti was squatting out in the rain, practicing her glyph work on the stone.

The storm had lessened, but there was still a drizzle coming down.

“I couldn’t sleep,” Volanti said when she noticed him.

“It’s hard on a rock in a storm,” he said. Snarefoot yawned and stretched her wings over him.

“No,” she said. “I was just missing Aaron.”

Treylen hadn’t thought of Aaron much lately. He didn’t like to. His friend was gone to them. Like so many other assassins who disappeared into their mission and were never seen again. The fact that Aaron seemed to want that life made it all the more difficult for him to accept. That wasn’t the friend he knew. Some kind of fever had come over him when he lost his tongue, and he hadn’t been the same since.

“What is all this?” Treylen paced over to look at what she had been writing.

“I was just trying to make the one Egin did.”

“It’s over here.” He pointed to one that looked the clearest. A string of familiar glyphs ran alongside it.

“I was just thinking of ways to chain it.”

“What did I just warn you not to do? What are all these?” He gestured to another portion of the rock, more strange shapes, in wet charcoal, mostly washed away now.

“I was just wondering what other glyphs might be out there that we don’t know about.”

“Careful or they’ll put you in a wizard’s tower.”

“I am careful.” She rubbed the markings out with her boot.

A sound like a raptor’s shriek came down from the clouds. Volanti had to back away as a large dragon landed in the center of the rock, Apogee clinging to its back. It folded its wings away. Volanti slid down, patting it on the neck.

Rime landed on the far side of the rock, putting Treylen between him and the new arrival.

“Where did this dragon come from?” Treylen asked.

She was living up in a crevasse, Rime said.

“No questions,” Apogee said. “Just get on.”

Peace, assassin. I won’t hurt you, a voice cooed in Treylen’s head. His skin prickled.

She was a bonded dragon if she could speak like this, and an elder if she could speak to those who weren’t her bondmate.

“Who are you?” he asked.

A friend. We must hurry now. The storm will cover our flight.

She spread her wings behind her and bowed, stretching her neck between Treylen and Volanti. Treylen climbed on just behind the wings and wrapped his feet around the dragon’s body. There wasn’t much to hang on to. A dragon with no saddle wasn’t meant to carry two, but Volanti would have an easier time in front of the wings.

This was one of the largest bonded dragons he had seen. Even Foxbane, bondmate of the hero Rak’tsoro, hadn’t grown quite this size.

“You were practicing?” Apogee ran a foot over the smudged ashes on the stone. “You shouldn’t do that here.

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