The Queen's Aerie by K.C. York

Author:K.C. York [K.C. York]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: York Enterprises
Published: 2022-08-09T00:00:00+00:00

They arrived in the city of Suychet well after midnight, but everyone was wide awake, as was the city itself. Agadart was impressed by how busy the train station was, as supplies were unloaded from trains coming in from the north and south. Sadly, there were also passengers boarding to head back, most of them in stretchers or using canes to walk. There was at least one dragon slumped on a platform, bandaged and too badly hurt to transform back into their human form. They would fill up a whole train car, and Agadart wondered who would help them as they traveled, since the Isle of Watt did not have anything like a Dragon Maids Corps. Other dragons, perhaps? Regular nurses? She would have to ask Doctor Worthan.

The man himself was in the middle of a clutch of people welcoming his arrival. She stayed behind him, sorting out his luggage and her own, as well as the precious medical supplies he had put in her care since they left the boat a week ago. The people Worthan was talking to all wore the deep red robes and jackets of the Wattish military medical branch, and loudly expressed their relief that he had arrived. Agadart tried to contain her surprise when two of them, one man and a woman, shifted to reveal that they had dragon wings printed on the backs of their jackets.

“Maid Aegirine!”

Agadart turned to see Maid Pyrite marching up the platform, scowling at her. Directly behind her was a young ensign who looked awkward in his starched uniform, glancing nervously between her and Agadart as they approached.

“Maid Pyrite. May I help you?” Agadart said as perfunctorily as possible, while giving the ensign a quick, hopefully reassuring, smile.

Instead of replying, Maid Pyrite turned to the ensign. “Well, this is her. Go on! Go on!” She shoved at the poor boy’s shoulder.

“Maid…Maid Aegirine?” he asked. Maid Pyrite rolled her eyes.

“Maid Aegirine. That is me.” Agadart nodded. He looked unreasonably relieved.

“Oh good. I mean, uh, thank you? That is, I am here with a message.”

She nodded for him to continue, but he didn’t. They looked at each for a long moment before Maid Pyrite shoved at him again. “Go on!”

“Yes! Of course. Uhm. Admiral Leonteinparre the Younger sent for you. I believe it is about the ledger?”

The ledger he promised to return before they arrived at Suychet, but had not. She refrained from rolling her eyes in turn, wondering why he hadn’t just given it to the ensign to deliver. Although, on second thought, she figured the information it contained was too sensitive to just send it around with any low-ranking staff, even one chaperoned by a dragon maid.

She nodded, resigned to the detour. “Very well. Let me inform Doctor Worthan first.”

The ensign nodded vigorously as she stepped away. “Doctor?”

“Yes? Oh, everyone, this is my new assistant, Maid Aegirine.”

“Maid Aegirine?” a tall woman with the patches of a full doctor on her chest said with surprise. “So they did bring over

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