The Commander and the Dragon (Redwood Dragons Book 3) by Sloane Meyers

Author:Sloane Meyers [Meyers, Sloane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-01T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

The blows to the Falcon Cross army were not as bad as they might have been. Mac had lost about fifty wizards. While this was a big blow to the morale of the Falcon Cross clan, it was a bit of a relief to Mac. She had braced herself for numbers in the hundreds, and considered anything below fifty to be a resounding success. One big memorial service was held three days later, commemorating all of the soldiers who had so bravely died in the war, and the families of those who had passed also held individual funerals for their loved ones.

The mood in Falcon Cross had changed. Before the attack, the wizards had all been going on about their business as usual. Most had still been jolly, and had not taken the threat of war all that seriously. It was hard to imagine war, when you had never seen one, and even your grandparents or great-grandparents had never seen one. There had been peace in Falcon Cross for so long that everyone had forgotten what it was like to be faced with the heartache and terrors of war.

Now that many of their own number had died, though, the wizards were somber. They went through their days nervously, always glancing over their shoulders as though an attacker might suddenly appear and try to kill them, too. They spoke in whispers, and Mac had a feeling that much of that whispering was directed at her. She knew that many were not happy with the way the way the battle had turned out, although it had actually turned out much better than it could have. Falcon Cross had been extremely lucky that none of the attackers could fly. Next time, they might not be so lucky.

Mac frowned now, as she sat in her office sipping slowly at a steaming hot mug of coffee. It was nearly eight o’clock in the evening, and the sun was setting slowly somewhere behind the trees. The light coming in through Mac’s office window was fading, but she didn’t bother yet to get up and turn on her office lights. She sat, sipping her coffee and thinking.

Were the people of Falcon Cross right? Was she to blame for the fact that wizards had died? She had done her best to lead them, but perhaps, as Zeke had accused her of in the beginning, she had not worked as hard or as quickly as she should have. She was young, and although the people of Falcon Cross had once celebrated how precocious she was, this week they had whispered that she was too youthful and inexperienced to be leading an army.

Mac frowned. The truth of the matter was that everyone in Falcon Cross was too inexperienced to be leading an army. No one here had seen war. The closest they had come had been the battle for the dragon sapphire in the Redwoods a few years ago, but even that had been a relatively small skirmish, and none of the Falcon Cross wizards had actually died.

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