War of Dragons by Holland Andy

Author:Holland, Andy [Holland, Andy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Andy Holland
Published: 2016-04-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20 - Evacuating the camp

"You're not making any sense, John," Theo told him. "How is this just the beginning? Our mission was very clear: find the slave camp, bring back a few prisoners as evidence that we've been there and then escort the rescuers to the camp. We've done much more than that; we've protected all these girls and we've help defeat the guards. I think our part is done now, don't you? And as for Gul, well, I know your girlfriend is a Red Dragon and you really want to help them, but you can't ask him for more than this. This was all that your friends negotiated with the Browns."

John shook his head. "We're deep in Blue Dragon territory with thousands of girls who can't fly out of here. There's too many for us to carry home in one trip and it’s a long flight back—far too long to do twice in a day, let alone in less than half a day. I don't care what we negotiated with the Browns; we can't abandon these girls."

Theo looked taken aback. "Too many? Wait a minute, are you sure about that? I mean, how many do you think there are? There can't be too many of them. I mean, we have at least ten thousand dragons, don't we, Gul?"

Gul coughed, trying to hide his embarrassment. "We had about that many at the start, yes. But half of my dragons had to be deployed elsewhere, and in the battle we will have sustained considerable losses…."

"What?" Theo asked, shock written all over his face. "Where are they deployed? Why would you deploy them anywhere other than here for this rescue?"

Gul nodded solemnly. "Yes, yes. I shall explain. Your map writers gave us the locations of all of the settlements that they found in this area and there were more than we had expected. Two of them were sizeable and posed a threat that we couldn't ignore."

"Couldn't ignore? What do you mean you couldn't ignore? It's not as if they've sprung up overnight. Why couldn't you ignore them?"

"Theo, my friend, when the guards saw us coming, I assure you, the first thing they would have done is to have despatched messengers to all of the towns nearby calling for help. Their combined number would have posed a very significant threat and could have wiped us out. But picked off one at a time and through a surprise attack... well, they would be much easier to fight. My troops are still busy wiping out each and every one of their settlements as we speak. Doing this, we are now much safer."

"Bah," Theo replied dismissively. "It's a land grab and nothing more. You've used this rescue to extend your borders. I would never have agreed to this. This was not part of our agreement."

"No, it was not, but our agreement did not forbid it either. I can't see how you could really object to this, Theo; the whole point of this arrangement was to

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