The Burning World by Kris Austen Radcliffe

Author:Kris Austen Radcliffe [Radcliffe, Kris Austen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781939730527
Publisher: Six Talon Sign Fantasy & Futuristic Romance
Published: 2017-10-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty

Cheyenne, Wyoming…

The monster reared onto his hind legs. He stretched his long, dragon neck and reached into the roiling, burning clouds with his massive dragon hand-claws.

Six talons ripped into Rysa’s chained body. Six talons punctured her psyche, because the monster knew, now. The monster had become aware of just who infested what he believed to be his…

“Dream!” she yelled as she flinched awake. “Dreaming!” She was in an SUV driven by Andreas. They were on the interstate. He refused to wait for Ladon, Anna, and the dragons. But it was okay. She’d texted Ladon that she was going to nap and that they were heading east.

She glanced over her shoulder. No sign of the bus behind them.

“They haven’t caught up yet,” Andreas said. “You okay?”

He still had the duffle with the midnight blades on his lap.

“I think the dragon I saw—the dragon who attacked Ladon and Dragon in my vision—was surprised to find us.” She shivered and pulled the jacket tighter. “I don’t think it was one specific dragon, either.” She shook her head. “I felt like an entire people saw us. I think their surprise has altered… something. I don’t know what.”

They met the enemy. The real enemy. Not the Burners. Not Trajan and his bullshit. No, they’d met what was about to cause the whole damned world to burn.

The whole world. Cities. The planet.

She saw it in a vision right after she activated. Whole cities burn.

Her uncle Faustus saw it, too. That dumb, evil son of a bitch Metus, her cousin, saw it. They tried to make her into the Ambusti Prime so that she’d kill Ladon because Faustus thought the Dracae would cause the end. Trajan, too. Trajan tried to kill her because he thought her dragons caused the burning world.

They all saw dragons. They just saw the wrong dragons.

And in the process of meeting their enemy, their enemy met them.

If Rysa had talons, hers would be fully out.

No talons here, her dark Fate said. Just, you know, this. Rysa’s energy blade manifested around her fist. It flowed up her arm and cupped her elbow.

Fire to fight fire.

Andreas pointed at her arm. “That doesn’t hurt?” he asked. “It’s not going to set the car on fire, is it?”

“I don’t understand what it is,” she said as she watched the energy continue flowing up her arm. Pretty soon, she’d have one of those shoulder-sleeve gladiator deals, but made out of fire.

How menacing, her dark Fate said.

Shut up, Rysa thought.

Andreas’s forehead furrowed. He, like everyone else, did not fully comprehend what had happened at the cave, or why Rysa was suddenly “upgrading.”

“What, exactly, did you see?” he asked. “In that vision?”

“The… place,” she said. They’d been in the SUV for a couple of hours and she still felt dazed. “The plateau.”

The long immortal understood “the place.” They, collectively, had been visiting it on and off for centuries.

Andreas said nothing for a several breaths. “We have never encountered other dragons.” He sounded reverent.

Dragon and Sister-Dragon were the only two. All other dragons were stories and myths.

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