The Rage: The Year of Rogue Dragons, Book I by Richard Lee Byers
Author:Richard Lee Byers [Byers, Richard Lee]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780786956951
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Publishing
Published: 2010-04-07T00:00:00+00:00
The night was warmer than Dorn had expected. Balmy air had blown up from the south to provide a first teasing promise of spring. Still, though heâd done plenty of it in his time, he disliked traveling cross-country in the dark, even when the territory seemed as clear, settled, and peaceful as the farmland surrounding Lyrabar. Something could still creep up on you.
Accordingly, he supposed he should be glad Kara retained something of a dragonâs keen senses even in human guise. She seemed to see in the dark as well as Taegan, maybe even as well as Raryn, which meant the band had another able lookout watching for trouble. Yet it irked him somehow.
His mood soured still further when she dropped back from the head of the column to tramp at his side along the slushy, rutted road.
âIf we truly are about to part,â she murmured, âI want to thank you and apologize for deceiving you.â
âJust pay what you owe.â
She sighed. âI understand why you hate dragons. But we arenât all alike.â
He didnât bother to answer.
âIf you think about it,â she persisted, âyouâll realize I only lied that first night and only about how I received my wounds. Everything else I told you was the truth. I just didnât give you all the details.â
âYou did lie afterward. You pretended to like me.â
âI did. I do.â
âLike me â¦â It was hard to say. The mere thought seemed to trigger a chorus of derisive laughter inside his head. âLike me as a woman likes a man. A trick to make sure Iâd fight to protect you even against Larethâs agents.â
âYouâre wrong.â
âCurse you, canât you talk straight even now, or does your tongue always fork whatever form you wear? Weâre two completely different kinds of creature.â
âIt doesnât matter,â she said. âThrough the ages, drakes who can shapeshift have often loved humans or elves.â
I doubt they picked cripples and freaks to be their partners, Dorn thought, but that retort was too bitter to utter.
Instead, he said, âMaybe every species has its perverts.â
âIt isnât perverse. Itâs natural, particularly for song dragons. We differ from the rest of our kind in a number of ways, and one is that weâre particularly at home in human guise. We spend the majority of our time that way. We have a legend that our earliest ancestors were entirely human, until a god blessed them with the power to transform.â
âI donât care,â he said. âIâm just your hired bodyguard doing a job thatâs nearly over.â
âVery well, if thatâs the way you want it.â
She lifted her hand as if to touch him, evidently thought better of it, and returned to the front of the procession.
A few minutes later, Raryn called, âI think I see it.â
He led them off the road and up a hill. Deep snow lay there, untrodden by anyone before them, and they slipped and floundered as, their steps crunching, they made their ascent. Taegan spread his raven-feathered wings as though he meant to fly to the summit, then opted to remain on the ground.
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