The Dogs of War by Kennedy King

Author:Kennedy King [King, Kennedy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mind Of Khan Studios
Published: 2019-07-11T16:00:00+00:00

Donellanus sat in the conference room, to be as alone as he felt. He imagined his father had done the same, the night he resolved to dissolve the monarchy officially. A beast of action, he decided to take a royal line of cushy figureheads, and form them into something with the power for real change. He sacrificed a life of endless but pointless luxury for his son, for the greater good of his kind. Sure, the council of the Higher Order had been around for a few centuries before that, but they never had the kind of ultimate, decisive power they had when a King still sat on the throne.

It took a courage beyond words. It took belief that he could bring change generations after his death, by raw will and grit alone. That was the kind of courage Donellanus needed now. To stand apart from his people, for their own good. He pushed himself up from the long council table, and trudged out to the hallway.

“Chairman,” several guards grumbled to him on the way. Donellanus marched straight past. He had mind only for his destination.

He passed by the shrine, where several Faders were actually praying to him. If only they knew how their pleas truly reached him, in a blur, on his way down the hall. He passed by the room where the outlaw Drogan was strung up by his wrists in custom Chrysum bindings. Donellanus marched right out the rear door of their base, to a gigantic stony overlook of the swirling yellow-orange cloud ocean. There, he found one of the only beings left in the galaxy he trusted absolutely. Dormis.

“Greekah, moterena, fuumar harest,” Donellanus hissed to the hulking Fader in its native tongue. He had said what he understood to mean take me to the monster. Dormis only nodded, and turned for a spiral of stony stairs that led down, beneath the main platform of their base. Donellanus followed close behind him, to the concealed caverns of the basement.

Dormis guided his lord and leader only as far as a door of solid gray stone. It alone was set apart from the clay and rock of the rest of the base. There, the Fader stepped aside, and flattened against the wall for Donellanus to go on alone. The Chairman hardly believed when he noticed Dormis tremble. Every one of the hairs on his chitin armor vibrated with horror for whatever waited beyond the gray door. Donellanus put his hand to the stone, breathed deep and tried to emulate his father. He pushed his way inside.

A single shard of light shot into the room ahead of Donellanus, from the hallway he came through. There were no windows in the chamber of Machaeus. There was nothing in the room, actually, besides the massive pillar in its center that connected its floor to the ceiling. Right in the center of the solid clay trunk, a screen of glass peeked through. The clear, cylindrical prison trapped inside the stone was just big enough for a full-size Dragon.

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