The Seadragon's Daughter (Dragon de la Sangre) by Troop Alan F

Author:Troop, Alan F. [Troop, Alan F.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2004-12-07T05:00:00+00:00

After the meal, Mowdar retires to his nest, and most of the Pelk drift off to theirs. Lorrel mindspeaks, “I promised to make a nest for you,” and wanders off too, leaving just Derek and me sitting on the seaweed seats.

“You really like it here?” I mindspeak.

The creature thinks for a few moments before answering. “You know me, old man. A full belly, a warm and willing female and no chores gets as close to paradise as I can imagine. At home Pa and Mum were always going on about my responsibilities and what I had to do to help them maintain Morgan’s Hole. Here I only have to worry about which wife I want to take to bed.”

“So you joined them willingly?”

“Don’t be daft, man. I knew Pelk existed, but I didn’t know any lived anywhere near Jamaica. I was just out prowling late at night, on the beach in my human form. You’d be surprised how many tourists, single women, go off wandering down the sand in the dark by themselves.

“All I wanted was a bit of a roll with one, and of course a meal. But I ran into this most extraordinary girl, tiny really, not a lick of hair on her body, white as ocean foam. She didn’t say a word, just laid down for me and spread her arms and legs and let me do whatever.”

Derek stretches and sighs. “It was magnificent. I wish I could go back and experience it for the first time again.” He pauses and looks at me. “But you know what I mean, don’t you, old man?”

I shake my head. “Chloe and I are mated. I refused Lorrel.”

“So you haven’t had her yet?”

“Nor will I,” I mindspeak.

Derek guffaws. “You have much to learn about Pelk females,” he mindspeaks.

I think about saying that I don’t want to learn any more about any Pelk. I just want to go home. But instead I just shrug. “What I’d like to know,” I mindspeak, “is how you ended up joining their srrynn and how they learned enough to come after me?”

“I didn’t join anything. It was awkward after I finished with Sybyli—that’s her name. I mean, she had been extraordinary, and I wasn’t sure I wanted to lose out on any more of that by eating her. I still thought she was human then. No, I didn’t notice her eyes, old man. There were better things than that to stare at. But she knew what I was. And while I was lying there mulling over what to do, she stabbed me with this thing. You know all about how it works, don’t you?”

I nod.

“Anyway, after I calmed down, Sybyli explained that she’d seen me shift shape at the beach months before and had been waiting to meet me. She said I could choose either to have a painful death or to return to her srrynn with her.” Derek huffs out a laugh. “Not much of a choice for a creature like me. I went right to her syyrrn with her that night.

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