The Masked One (Steel Dragon Book 11) by Kevin McLaughlin & Michael Anderle

Author:Kevin McLaughlin & Michael Anderle [Mclaughlin, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798885413527
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2022-03-23T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

When her belly was full and no longer threatened to rebel against her, Kristen felt she could think again for the first time in a while. It was crazy how much hunger could affect one’s mental state. Now that she was full, she felt much better. If she considered where she was now compared to where she had been an hour before, she was in a different world.

Yes, she was still trapped beneath the earth but she was no longer hungry or thirsty. She had managed to get out of the twisting tunnels leading from the room where she had been deposited by an unknown hand. Things had subtly changed and she was moving forward—if not literally, then at least figuratively, and that was more than enough for her.

A year ago—hell, even a month—she might have let this situation defeat her. Now, she wouldn’t. Not because she had become stronger—although she was much stronger than she had been—but because she knew it wasn’t her against the world. She had a team of people who cared for her. A team that was no doubt, at the very least, beginning to wonder where their leader had vanished to. She was certain that they would come looking for her. Until then, she merely had to stay warm, dry, hydrated, and fed.

Another part of her—a darker, niggling corner of her mind—told her otherwise. It insisted that her friends were already dead and she had been trapped there so an unseen enemy could eliminate the rest of the team in one fell swoop. She knew, though, that this was only fear trying to work its way into her brain. Her team had dragons and powerful mages. It included humans—regular humans—who had stood against dragons and mages and lived to tell the tale. They had each other and the knowledge of the truth of that was enough to enable her to push her fears from her mind.

Kristen knew they would come for her. That’s what friends did and it was what teams did. Still, she couldn’t help but want to be on the surface when they arrived.

She decided to explore. Her rock had lost enough energy to reduce its light and was now hardly warmer than the surrounding air. There was no reason to stay near it.

Filled with a new sense of purpose, she followed the shore and used her dragon vision to try to pierce the gloom and look for anything that might provide a way out. It wasn’t easy. The shadows were thick and almost liquid, and although her eyes could make some sense of the darkness, there were still places she could not see. She avoided those edges and corners and had a sense from them that was deeply unsettling.

But there wasn’t anything in them. She felt confident of that and used her dragon aura to try to feel for other dragons, sources of food, animals, or people who might lead her out of there and even for whoever had put her there.

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