Refuge: Kurt's Quest by Doug Dandridge

Author:Doug Dandridge [Dandridge, Doug]
Language: pol
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2014-12-24T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

The roar of the great red sounded through the mountains, echoing off the walls of rock and sending most of the creatures within earshot running. Marshal Ellessa Ellisandra smiled as he heard that sound. So, our pursuers have run into our new friend. May they burn in agony in this world before they go to whatever hell they are destined for.

[The way is clear,] sent the Master Assassin, Glassini Ellishanana, who was scouting ahead with her three compatriots.

[We’re coming in,] sent the Marshal back, waving a hand in the air and pointing at the entrance of the ruins. It looked like at one time this had been a marble wall, but it had been torn and melted by the dragon, allowing the Great Wyrm to enter and use the interior for his lair. The first score of warriors marched through, their eyes constantly on the move as they entered a place that stunk of dragon.

This is not the area that worries me, thought the Marshal. The cavern he saw as he walked in had been the lair of a creature that no other would think of intruding upon. It was when they went through an opening that the dragon couldn’t get through that things would again become dangerous. And his assassins would be the first to contact those dangers. What they’re here for, he thought. He preferred that at least one of them made it to their objective alive. They might need an assassin’s skill as a thief to get through a final barrier. But if some of them died before they got to that objective, he would not cry. Especially if it was the Master, who he was sure had orders to get rid of him when the time was right.

“Come on, Krug. Jakisanda,” he ordered the Ogre and the Death Priest. They were his heavy hitters, and he was determined to keep them close in case something came out of the dark that he couldn’t handle on his own. The rest of the priests and mages followed his group, then another score of warriors. All he wanted to bring into the ruins at this time. There were over a hundred men he would leave behind, though another score of them would follow when Ellisandra and his people got deep into the ruins, and act as a ready reserve.

The roar of the dragon came to his ears once again, and the Marshal smiled. Perhaps he can kill them, and they can return the favor, so we won’t have to deal with the Wyrm again.

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The Great Wyrm swept lower, its wings booming as it reduced its dive to something that would keep it over its target, putting out torrents of flame to incinerate its victims. It could sense some powerful weapons on the intruders, gear that would join its treasure horde after it killed the carriers. It opened its mouth and shot out the superhot flames that were greater than the heat of the greatest forge.

Something hit Keristratinix in the head, a flame so hot and powerful that it actually dazed the dragon.

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