Thicker Than Blood (Dragon’s Daughter Book 3) by Kevin McLaughlin & Michael Anderle

Author:Kevin McLaughlin & Michael Anderle [McLaughlin, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781649714176
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2021-01-20T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

As promised, they pulled off the highway about an hour later and turned onto a road that was somehow even more twisty than the last one. After about thirty minutes during which they rose ever higher on switchbacks up the side of a mountain, they began a slow descent into a valley on another set of switchbacks. Finally, they pulled into a dirt driveway lined with massive pine trees.

Kylara was surprised to see wildlife peeking out at them instead of scurrying away. A deer watched their approach, as did a family of raccoons in a tree. The animals didn’t seem skittish at all, which both calmed her and made her want to ask even more questions. Top of the list was what the hell she was getting into.

The dirt driveway left the shade of the pine trees and took them into a beautiful mountain meadow. She could immediately see why pixies would live there. It was like the field in their home, the place of flowers and butterflies with the grottos, only this scene didn’t have trees ringing it but mountains. She might not have noticed the house at all if she hadn’t been looking at the mountains.

It was built into the side of one, so all she saw at first were huge windows and a door.

“Is that it?” she asked and pointed, and Drew nodded.

“It’s dug into the mountain,” he explained. “It’s an awesome little place. The pixies don’t let the human who lives with them here trim any of the plants, though, so there are probably still roots poking through the ceiling.”

Now that she could use the windows as a reference, she saw that the meadow wasn’t as wild as she had originally thought. The space in front of the house was still all wildflowers and tall grasses, but they were planted in patterns and whirls like a geometric mage tattoo but done on the scale of a mountainside. It was beautiful although difficult to discern the pattern at first. She longed to transform and take to the sky to see it from above.

Drew put the truck in park and they climbed out of the damaged cab and stepped into the meadow in front of the house.

Kylara barely had time to take a step before the front door of the house burst open to the sounds of screams. She planted her feet and raised her fists, wondering why she trusted Drew to bring her there when she didn’t know his whole story. She had been naïve and too trusting.

Something burst from the open door, then vanished into the grass. Kylara tracked its approach as the grass bent with its passing. Screaming continued from inside the house, but she could hear the words now.

“Rider! Get back here, Rider. We’re supposed to have guests soon. Rider, this is an embarrassment!”

She didn’t know what a Rider was or why it might embarrass the speaker if Rider attacked her.

Instinctively, she called on her dragon powers and spoke to the grass to tell it to capture whatever was passing through it toward her.

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