Talismans by Lisa Lowell

Author:Lisa Lowell [Lowell, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Creativia
Published: 2017-03-07T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13 – Demon on the Mountain

Raimi had to insist, as they traveled up the Don, that Imzuli feed every night. Over the weeks the urge to hibernate had descended with the change of season on the young dragon. Although the Great Chain Mountains now dominated the horizon and Raimi had found two sites for palaces, little could keep Imzuli's concentration. She seemed distracted and too often Raimi had to insist she go do something else so she herself could eat or sleep regularly. Conversation about humans no longer even stimulated the expected excitement.

“What am I going to do with her?” Raimi asked Owailion during one of their nightly meetings. “I feel like I am harassing her even to simply talk to me. What could have happened to make her so…depressed?”

Owailion could not advise her, for he had little of that problem with Mohan. The gold dragon had willingly gone out of his way to help traverse Malornia, looking over the strange land, finding whole pockets of magic, the major ports and reconnoitering the capitol. That the dragon had to do so invisibly and had to feed from dangerous forests might be enough to keep Mohan more alert.

“Imzuli is young,” Owailion suggested. “Perhaps she is not happy about the Sleep. She has so little experience. Shall I ask Mohan to speak to her?”

Raimi, with her independent streak rejected that idea. “No, I will make do. It's like I'm flying alone. It makes me question if the dragons will even make it to mid-winter. If we let them, they would drift off right now. I'm going to miss them,” she added regretfully, feeling her eyes ache with unshed tears at the idea.

“Think on this then, we will be alone together at that point. I will not be stuck here in Malornia much longer. Have hope for that.”

Raimi smiled at that suggestion and in response sent Owailion a magically blown kiss. They would be together soon enough.

At dawn Imzuli came back from feeding and Raimi greeted her with as much cheer as she felt would not be offensive. “I think today we will pass over Zema. I wish to see where those stones were, and then you can take me up to your mountain. It is close by, is it not?”

Imzuli gave a non-committal rumble. “Yes, it is close by.”

Rather than comment on that, Raimi climbed aboard and they were off, skimming over the forest and through looming clouds that threatened snow, the first of the season that would reach the valley floor. “Would you rather go higher, out from beneath the clouds?” Raimi asked politely.

“Here is Zema. Be wary,” Imzuli warned curtly as she spiraled down into the forest.

Even in the brightest summer sun, the place would have seemed gloomy, Raimi noted. Imzuli set down yards away from the bare spot in the forest, as if she dare not use the obvious center of the ring as a landing spot and would rather battle the branches fouling her wings than enter Zema.

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