The Language of Spells by Garret Weyr

Author:Garret Weyr [Garret Weyr and Katie Harnett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Published: 2018-08-17T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

BURIED

MAGGIE COULD FEEL HOT LIQUID TRYING TO BURST up from her belly, but she ignored it. She kept her hands tightly pressed together as a way of keeping what she felt, a violent mix of sad and angry, from boiling over. The idea of dragons being torn from those they loved and then falling victim to a spell worse than being turned into a teapot was beyond horrible. She couldn’t believe that what Grisha described had happened in her city.

But it had happened.

After Leopold divided the dragons, the ones without gold eyes were moved to an apartment building on Weyrgasse in the third district, where they cried loudly at night. Three of them were so unhappy that they tried to escape. People who lived on the street were irritated by all of the noise and commotion.

Leopold, still unsure of where he would put the redor violet-eyed dragons, cast a spell to keep them silent. He thought that would buy him some time while he figured out what to do with more than seventy unwanted dragons.

Instead of falling into silence, however, the dragons fell into an endless sleep, like the kind you might find in a fairy tale. It was a good spell, and one Leopold had used before, but it just wasn’t the right spell for the situation. And it wasn’t the spell he’d meant to use. One of the problems with having weakened power was that he couldn’t always control it.

“The dragons in the apartment building still made a lot of noise, mostly from snoring,” Grisha said. “Seventy dragons snoring meant a lot of smoke in the air. The neighbors complained more than ever.”

Maggie tried to imagine living near an apartment building full of crying dragons. Would you really complain? Wouldn’t you, instead, knock on the door and ask if they needed something? And if those dragons then fell into a deep, noisy sleep without waking up, wouldn’t you call a doctor?

Maggie was sure that was what she would do.

“So Leopold moved them,” Grisha said.

“Where to?” Maggie asked. Her thoughts were racing ahead, searching for ways to undo what had been done. Surely it would be a simple matter of waking up the dragons. “Where are they now?”

“I don’t know,” Grisha said.

It was one of the saddest parts of his memories. It was bad enough to have the dragons locked up, he thought, but not knowing where they were made it all more terrible.

“Did Leopold kill them?” Maggie whispered. Her belly roiled again.

“No, definitely not,” Grisha said. “If he had, we all would have smelled it. A murdered dragon releases a horrible scent,” he explained. “To get rid of the smell, the body has to be burned. It can take up to three days for the fire to go out, and then another five for the smell to vanish.”

That’s impressive, Maggie thought. So even a dragon who was killed on the battlefield could still cause a lot of problems for the opposing army. But what if a dragon

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