Plague of Ice: Bk. 7 (Dungeons & Dragons Novel) by T. H. Lain

Author:T. H. Lain [Lain, T. H.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780786965069
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Publishing
Published: 2013-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

Regdar watched from around a corner, with Sonja still limp in his arms. She felt warm and soft, but he had little time to reflect on this. He blinked, trying to figure out where Hennet had gone. It had happened so quickly. Had he fallen into a hole in the ground? That was the best Regdar could figure, short of teleportation magic.

Cheated of its prize, the dragon snarled and circled back and landed to search the spot where Hennet disappeared. Its muzzle snuffled over the snow, trying to uncover a secret door. As long as it kept this up, Regdar thought, the rest of them were safe.

Then Regdar, too, heard a strange voice, accompanied by a fast buzz like the sound of a hummingbird’s wings.

“Look to the leffft,” it said. “Look to the tower.”

Regdar looked for the source of the voice but couldn’t find it. He did what it said and saw that a door stood open on one of the towers a short distance away. The dark hole beckoned him.

“Get to safety. Quickly!” the voice instructed him.

Regdar looked to Lidda and saw that she, too, was looking toward the open door. When their eyes met, they shared a look of puzzlement and concern, but their options were few.

The dragon shifted its attention from Hennet’s mysterious disappearance to the others. It spotted Lidda first and flew toward her. She scrambled for the open door.

“Hey!” Regdar shouted at the dragon. “Over here!”

The beast turned to face Regdar, then he, too, bolted toward the door. Sonja was light but Regdar felt her weight keenly as he pushed his legs to their fastest, kicking up clouds of snow as he ran. Regdar could hear the smooth beats of the dragon’s wings behind him, drawing nearer and nearer.

Lidda was almost at the door. Regdar was sure she’d be safe, assuming that safety actually lay through that door, but he couldn’t say the same for Sonja and himself. He thought he could even feel the dragon’s chill breath on the back of its neck. It seemed so close and the door so far away. Part of him wanted to turn back and confront the dragon, but he knew he couldn’t put Sonja down or draw his greatsword before the dragon would be on him. He ran on, and the cold along his neck was gone and the doorway yawned before him. Either he had outrun the dragon, or it had given up for some other reason. He raced through the dark opening just behind Lidda, and the door slammed behind them.

They were shut in the dark. For the first time in quite a while, they had real shelter. In fact, it was just as cold amid these ancient walls.

“What just happened?” asked Sonja, who slid groggily out of Regdar’s arms. She leaned against a wall to steady herself.

“We’ll tell you when we figure it out,” said Lidda.

“The dragon attacked us,” said Regdar. “There was an open door on one of these towers, so we ran inside.

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