The Thunderbird Queen (The Fire Queen's Apprentice Book 2) by Jordan Rivet

Author:Jordan Rivet [Rivet, Jordan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-19T16:00:00+00:00

Tamri and Rook caught up with Boru in the Darkwood, where he’d landed in a secluded clearing cloaked in shadows. When Rook alighted beside him, Heath was helping Gramma Teall down from his back as if she was a lady exiting a carriage. She wore a radiant smile.

Tamri certainly wasn’t smiling.

She started shouting before Rook had time to get his feet properly on the ground.

“What are you doing, you enormous ox-brain?” she hollered at Heath. “I told you we weren’t leaving. I told you I couldn’t drag her across the continent in the middle of a war! I told you to go!”

She scrambled down from Rook’s back and marched across the clearing, already raising her fists. She had a little Watermight left, but she wanted to feel this in her knuckles.

“You think you’re some kind of hero?” she yelled. “You should have trusted that I know what’s best for us. You had no right.” She reached him and swung her fist as hard as she could.

Heath caught it easily, calm as anything. She swung her other fist, and he got that too. She went for his groin next, but he twisted, anticipating her movements, and allowed her to kick the air with all the strength she possessed.

“Didn’t I teach you manners, girl?” Gramma Teall said. “You should only hit people who deserve it.” She stood beside Boru with one hand on his flank as if they were old friends.

“We have to go back to the tower,” Tamri said, giving up on trying to pummel Heath. He kept hold of her wrists so she couldn’t strike him. It was a good thing too. She wasn’t finished with him.

“I’ve had quite enough of that place,” Gramma Teall said.

“This will only make things worse,” Tamri said. The combination of fear and anger and adrenaline was making her vision blur. “Khrillin will never be done with us.”

“Perhaps not,” Gramma Teall said. “But that doesn’t mean we ought to make things easy for him.”

Tamri couldn’t believe this. She had worked so hard to protect Gramma Teall. She had bitten her tongue and agreed to work with Khrillin so her grandmother could stay where there were healers and regular meals. And now Gramma Teall wanted to throw her life away?

She scowled up at Heath, who was accepting her outburst mildly. This was his fault.

“Why didn’t you do what I asked?” she demanded.

“I couldn’t leave you.” Heath’s voice became as rough as sandpaper. “And I couldn’t let you sacrifice your life as if it doesn’t matter.”

“That wasn’t your choice to make,” Tamri said.

“No,” Gramma Teall cut in. “It was mine. I know what you were trying to do, Tamri, and I couldn’t let it continue. I’d have walked out of that tower myself to force your hand if I could.” She patted Boru on the shoulder. “This way was much more exciting.”

The dragon gave a pleased gurgle. Gramma Teall turned to stroke his feathers, and Tamri noticed a dull glint in her hair. She was wearing her pewter dragonfly.

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