Undercover Truths - Undercover Lies by Stephen H. King

Author:Stephen H. King
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: myth and legend, gods and goddesses, prequel story, prehistory adventure

Undercover Lies

Renna stood her post, scanning the horizon for flying shapes with wings and tails. A sigh escaped her lips. She’d been a borderlands guard for several months, and the promise of action and adventure had only been satisfied if you called cooking over an open campfire an adventure. It wasn’t, to her way of seeing things, at least so long as anyone other than Mitchie was cooking. If the young boy from central Cenna, the capital city of Amiotria, was cooking on an open flame then all bets were off, which was why the company didn’t let him do that anymore.

Renna snorted—city folk and their reliance on magic. Stupid, all of it. Yes, their nation boasted some of the most powerful mages in the world, but that was no reason to pretend the old ways didn’t exist. The gods, curse them all, had provided metal to make weapons and flint to make fire. Besides, out on the borders it was especially important to do things by hand because a single flow of elemental power woven in the vicinity of the guard shacks Renna and her fellows manned would set alarms ringing throughout a system connected all the way back into the core of the Amiotrites’ intelligence office.

Renna had no idea when or why the war with the gods had started. She doubted that anyone did. It had been going for ten long years, though, with no end in sight. The dragons were tough enough to deal with, their fire and claws having taken a number of lives including those of Renna’s parents. They were somehow immune to the magical flows of energy but not to grappling hooks, nets, and spears, which was why Renna always kept a net and a few spears close by. She’d lost her parents to dragons, yes, but she would avenge their death.

The dragon flights, then, were the reason the human sentries stood guard beside the magic detectors. The alarms could be surrounded by an entire flight of dragons and never peep, but let a rider cast a single spell and they’d be instantly pinpointed. A whole company of mages would pour from the keep’s portal ready to overwhelm the dragon rider before he caused serious damage. It worked; she’d participated in a defense once a few months ago. A dragon dove out of the sun, surprising the sentry who’d been on duty for a bit too long. As the dragon, a glistening green drake, had closed in on the kill its rider had fashioned what might have been a mighty fireball, and that had been the pair’s undoing. Instantly the entire complex had been alerted, and a dozen trained battle mages had taken the boy down from the dragon’s back and given him a heroic death while Renna and the rest of the guards had attempted to net the dragon. They’d failed, but the dragon had flown away with one of Renna’s spears dangling from its side, keening in what Renna had assumed was intense pain.

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