The Mountain Dragon's Curvy Mate by Zoe Chant

Author:Zoe Chant [Chant, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-20T18:30:00+00:00

8

She couldn’t quite believe what she was doing. “So I just…what?”

“Keep reaching out,” he said. He couldn’t resist; he reached out himself and put his hand on her back, just to be closer to her, to feel her warmth. “And it’ll come to you.”

“Okay,” she said. She sounded skeptical, but she stretched her hand out further. I’m learning to use a powerful anti-dragon weapon, she thought to herself. In the kitchen. This is crazy.

But if it can keep me safe…

The counter glowed more brightly, and by the time her hand was directly over the marble surface, she could see the blaster under the countertop, like it was covered in glass.

“Go ahead,” Brad said. “Take it.”

She reached through the glass. It was a strange sensation; there was definitely something there, something magical, but she passed through it easily. Like Jello, almost, only room temperature.

The blaster itself—that seemed like the only thing to call it—was cool to the touch. She picked it up carefully with her right hand, making sure she didn’t put a finger on the trigger. It was bronze and red, the right size for a human and disconcertingly shiny for something that could strip a dragon of his magic. “Very…Spaceman Spiff,” she said.

“The last time it was redesigned, we were kids,” he said, a little apologetically. He still had his hand on her back, just above her waist. It felt really good.

“So what do I do with it now? Just point and shoot?”

“Just point and shoot,” he said. “I mean, do it carefully. If you just press the trigger once, like shooting a gun, it gives a very small amount of anti-magic. It’s enough to make someone think twice, but it’s not damaging if you hit someone accidentally. If you need to really stop someone or work your way through an illusion, you have to pull the trigger multiple times, or just hold the trigger down.”

That made sense. “So if I aimed at the countertop and pulled the trigger—”

“You’d see the mechanism that protects the blaster, like it was completely exposed to you.” He paused. “But don’t, please. The magic that holds this place together is…basically constructed to do just that, and every bit of anti-magic weakens it. On a normal day, it’d be fine, but with—”

“Evil dragons burrowing into your mountain?”

He laughed, a little bitterly. “I hope not evil, but—yeah.”

“Bad dragons?”

“I guess that’s not much better.” He reached out and put his arm fully around her waist, pulling her gently closer. “Dragons that weren’t brought up right.”

“Dragons with poor social skills.”

His laugh at that was a lot happier. “Let’s eat, I think it’s rested long enough.”

“Definitely.” It smelled delicious. Brad’s uncle might have been fussy and lack social skills, but he either made good lasagna or knew how to get good lasagna. She couldn’t remember the last time something had smelled so good. She carefully put the blaster back.

“You sit down, I’ll bring it to you.”

“I don’t mind—”

He leaned over and kissed her cheek. “You’ve had a hard day.

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