Silence of the Dragon by Ian Madison Keller

Author:Ian Madison Keller [Ian Madison Keller]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rainbow Dog Books
Published: 2022-05-04T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter eleven

An Angry Herd

Riastel was naked beneath her. This wasn’t in itself unusual. The fact that she was fully clothed, that they lay in the remains of what had just a few minutes before been a very nice gazebo, and that a herd of angry unicorns had formed a ring around the two of them, those were the unusual bits.

Coryn huffed and Sybil sat up, blushing furiously as she dried her eyes. She didn’t know what had come over her. Something about this place, she supposed, brought her inner emotions boiling to the surface. Riastel had acted selflessly in trying to protect her from Coryn’s enchantment, although she hadn’t realized it at first. Not until she heard Coryn yelling about why the spell hadn’t killed him did Sybil realize why Riastel had pushed her. He’d put his body between her and whatever spell Coryn had thrown.

“Move,” Coryn hissed, narrowing his eyes at Riastel.

“No.” Sybil spread out her arms protectively over him.

Coryn frowned. “You would still protect him, knowing what he is?”

Sybil set her jaw and stared back at him. “I would.”

The unicorn behind Coryn snorted and jerked its head at Riastel, as if to stab him. Sybil threw herself to the side to intercept the horn. The unicorn managed to stop its lunge right before it would have impaled her, and they sat there frozen, staring at each other.

“Fleta, let me talk to her.” Coryn put a hand on the unicorn’s neck. Fleta withdrew with a snort, backing up with awkward movements. Sybil didn’t sit up until Fleta was fully behind Coryn.

“Look, Riastel might be a dragon, but he’s not like . . .” Sybil trailed off, unwilling to risk trying to lie to the unicorns. The legends didn’t say anything about unicorns being able to sense an untruth, but they didn’t say anything about some unicorns being able to take human form, either. “He tries,” she finished lamely.

Coryn lifted his eyebrows and rubbed his beard. “That doesn’t explain why my spell didn’t hurt the dragon.”

Sybil stared back at him. “You didn’t seem to care about it hitting me, at any rate, so it can’t have been too dangerous.”

“That spell was one to smite evil.” Coryn lifted his hand in a flicking gesture that she supposed was meant to be dramatic but just looked to her like he was swatting a fly. “An evil creature, like a dragon, should have been writhing in pain at its touch.”

Fleta nickered.

Coryn nodded. “Fleta saw your heart when she healed you, and she told me you are a good human, so I knew the spell would not harm you. But, why did it not hurt the dragon?”

Sybil rubbed her head and turned to look over Riastel’s senseless form. He had a purple bruise forming on the side of his back, but otherwise he looked unharmed. She turned back to Coryn with a slight shrug. “By your own logic, Riastel is not an evil creature.”

Like Coryn, she’d assumed all dragons were evil. She’d thought she’d seen another side to Riastel, until he’d killed and eaten Jasper in front of her.

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