Scorch Dragons by Amie Kaufman

Author:Amie Kaufman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-02-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

THEY SNUCK OUT EARLY THE NEXT MORNING, leaving behind a not-particularly-hopeful Mikkel and Theo—though the two boys were less worried about the success of the mission and more worried about their grilling at the hands of Valerius and Torsten, if anyone worked out that the other four were missing. Theo planned to try and speak to Hayn and let him know what they’d figured out, if he could find a time when the archives were quiet enough to slip into the little room where the mirror lay hidden.

For now, he and Mikkel were determined to do their best, and they waved the others farewell, then ran inside to set up the first of their diversions—a study session in Rayna and Ellukka’s room. If anyone came looking for the girls, they planned to say they’d only just gone to find a snack. After all, they must be around if their friends were in their room, right?

Anders kept his scarf pulled up around his face as Rayna soared between mountain peaks. She and Ellukka planned to travel east, flying low across the Sudrain River until they reached the Seacliff Mountains on the coast. From there they would make their way up to the Skylake. The journey would take longer than if they’d flown in a straight line, but there was also less chance they’d be seen from the ground.

The mists of the night before hadn’t yet cleared, and as Anders looked down over Rayna’s shoulder, he saw they were pooled at the base of the mountains like water, nestled in every gully. The Sudrain ran between tall fir trees like a gray-and-white thrashing beast, and eventually the trees thinned out as the Seacliff Mountains rose toward the sky. To his left he could see the Uplands, the broad, grassy plains that nestled between the two mountain ranges, but Rayna never went high enough for him to see the sea beyond them to the north.

It was a crisp, sunny day, with barely a cloud above them—the sky was a pale silvery-blue, the sun slowly rising from the direction they were flying. It grew colder and colder as the mountain peaks rose, and after a couple of long hours, when Anders had tucked himself down inside his layers—even for him this was getting seriously nippy—he felt Rayna start to descend.

He peeked out again and immediately spotted the Skylake.

It was enormous.

Just as Ellukka had said, sheer black cliffs fell straight to the sea below, and the lake itself somehow nudged all the way up to the edge of the cliff, the silvery-blue waters reflecting the sky, broken only by the occasional gust of wind.

The two dragons circled out to sea, and Anders leaned out far enough to spot the waves dashing themselves against the base of the cliffs in flurries of white foam, before Rayna’s rib cage shook with a rumble beneath him, and he took it as a sign to stop moving his weight around.

Side by side, wingtips almost touching, Rayna and Ellukka wheeled in from the sea to soar the length of the lake toward the hills at the other end.

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