War Dragons by C. K. Rieke

Author:C. K. Rieke [Rieke, C. K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crimson Cro Publishing
Published: 2019-01-23T22:00:00+00:00

Part IV

The Return of the Whiteblades

Chapter Twenty

Under the hot, blistering sun above, the caravan continued toward the city of Scindír. Although, now the caravan was hardly recognizable from what it had been when it was escorted by the Queensguard of Voru. Now the caravan sat nestled within the ranks of thousands of soldiers with tan hoods and cloaks over their dusty-white armor. Many sat atop ragged Ioxi with mats in their fur, and who’d look like they been ridden beyond their years.

A warm gust of wind blew into Lilaci’s face as she walked next to the wagon which carried Kera inside. Hours had passed since they decided to be on their way together toward the city that was housed close to the sea. The Knights of the Whiteblade had rummaged through the corpses of the Reevins which were littered with the reflecting Whitewood of their arrows. They’d taken what they found useful, which was a dazzling collection of staffs and many wicked designs and many of the daggers, and coins. They crucified the body of Erdüm up on a high dune to rot in the hot sun and be picked clean by the vultures.

Walking next to Lilaci, Fewn strode uneasily, her eyes peering out at the soldiers.

“They’re pleased with themselves,” Fewn whispered, leaning her lips up toward Lilaci’s ear.

“They should be,” Lilaci said, wiping a stray hair away from her face, tying it back. “They’ve all but eradicated the wizards and their queen. And we should be grateful.”

“I’m grateful, don’t misunderstand me,” she said. “But you know what I’m saying, they saved us, that’s wonderful, but there are so many of them, and I don’t know if I trust them.”

Lilaci glanced around at the soldiers, many of them looking over at her and Fewn from under their tan hoods. She groaned, “We would have been enemies just months ago, before Kera entered into our lives, and who would have imagined their numbers would have been this large? Where did they hide all of those years? I don’t believe they mean to hurt us, at least I don’t have reason to suspect that now.”

“Burr trusts them,” Fewn said, looking up toward him walking next to Alveron at the head of the convoy—or even army now.

“And we trust Burr,” Lilaci said, looking at him, and then turning her head back toward Gogenanth and Ezmerelda walking side by side, and then to Veranor behind them walking alone. She then looked at the soldiers around him, as they scowled at him, whispering between themselves with sharp tongues. “We should keep our eyes on him.”

Fewn looked back. “Who? Veranor?”

Lilaci nodded. “The knights may not like us, but they hate him.”

“I’ll watch him,” Fewn said, “but I worry about the ones who would want to try to fight the commander.”

“Well, we have a long road ahead of us,” Lilaci said, “Let's just take it one day at a time. And yes, we’ll keep an eye on him. But most of all, we’re going to watch over Kera.

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