Sorceress Eternal (A Gargoyle and Sorceress Tale Book 9) by Lisa Blackwood

Author:Lisa Blackwood [Blackwood, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2019-09-23T16:00:00+00:00

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Lillian eventually found her elemental dragon son on a spit of land on the north end of the island.

“What seems to be the problem?” she asked with a chuckled.

Erika looked over her shoulder, looking tired and a bit defeated. “Gryton doesn’t like the dragon and the dragon does like Gryton. I can’t convince the dragon to shift back even though I explained we want to keep his presence a secret until we’re ready to fight the Lady of Battles.”

“You could have come to me for help.”

Erika lowered her voice. “He won’t let me leave his side any farther than to go pee behind some rocks if I’m lucky.”

Lillian looked up at the dragon. “And why haven’t you come to visit your mother instead of giving your poor Null a hard time?”

The dragon gave her a somewhat sheepish look but didn’t respond.

Private Emerson cleared her throat loudly and then elbowed the dragon in the shin. “The one thing both Gryton and the dragon agree on is that they hate Lord Draydrak.”

“Well, at least they agree on something.” Lillian arched her brows at the dragon. “While you are a very handsome fellow and magnificent to look upon, and I’m not just saying that because I’m your mother, Erika isn’t wrong. You needed to—” She’d been about to say surrender but caught herself.

She remembered how competitive the dragon was, and as much as the dragon side of her son’s nature didn’t like the more controlled and logical Gryton, the dragon was much like Gryton because they were two sides of the same being. And Gryton never surrender.

After scrounging around for the correct wording, she smiled up at the dragon. “For our side to have a chance to win this coming war without massive bloodshed, we need a few surprises up our sleeves. And you, mighty dragon, are the greatest surprise. But you’ll only remain a surprise here on this island. As soon as you leave these waters, the Battle Goddess’s spies will be sure to discover you.”

The dragon snorted a sound of disdain.

“Think of the fear you’ll inspire in our enemies the first time they see you flying into battle with a Null of the First Wave riding on your back. More than a few of the Battle Goddess’s soldiers will surely run in terror. The chaos you create with by impressive.”

The dragon preened a little and then nuzzled Erika right off her feet. While the human soldier was picking herself up off the damp sand and cursing most creatively about ‘damned fools’ and ‘little boys needing a good whoopin’ from their mama’ Lillian continued.

“But that delightful advantage will be ruined if they learn of your existence. The only way to cause the chaos of that vision is if you give Gryton control again for a time. Let him deal with the tedium of military staging and strategy and moving soldiers around like pieces on a chessboard. Then when it’s time to kill things, you take command, for you are much less destructible than the two-legged version of my son.

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