A Gossamer Lens (The Legend of Vanx Malic Book 10) by M. R. Mathias

Author:M. R. Mathias [Mathias, M. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J.T. Arralle
Published: 2016-11-03T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Sixteen

We’re off to go a questing,

a questing we will go.

Will we find treasure, or wind up dead,

we’ll find out when we know.

– A Tavern Song

The roar of another dragon filled the night and liquid lightning flashed across the sky behind the coral wyrm. Its head whipped around in surprise. Then it leapt into the sky to avoid Avz’s next blast of breath. It came right over them, and Vanx saw that it was a female.

Avz banked and waited for it to get airborne before chasing it away from where Zeezle and Vanx stood.

“He is a protective one,” Vanx observed. He was disappointed that Avz hadn’t talked the coral wyrm into letting him ride it.

“That one is a bit wild,” Zeezle said, as if Avz might have told him so. “Avz will tame her down for you, though.” Zeezle got himself untangled and to his feet. “But it may take a while.”

“We don’t have a while.” Vanx huffed away his disappointment and fought away the tendrils of sorrow that threatened to reach in and smother the excitement and promise his hammering heart pounded through him. “We can’t even just ride Avz to Zyth. We need the hammer Pyra gave us to smash the gem-seed.”

“And Chelda has the head cracker?” Zeezle asked rhetorically.

“Worse. Where the hammer goes, she goes,” Vanx found a sarcastic laugh somewhere inside himself. “You will have to take her to the center of Zyth and let her root it. At least there are no terrible beasts or dangerous traps waiting there.”

“Vanx, the Lake of the Savants is at the center of Zyth.”

“The Goss agreed. The middle of the island, but I was envisioning a foothill valley, devoid of even a farmhouse, when it affirmed my thoughts.”

“But out on that peninsula, where the savants built their observatory, seems like the most protected place.” Zeezle made sense. “The Zythians there are the most powerful and would not only protect it, but they could study it and make sure it stayed healthy.”

“Fine,” Vanx said. It made sense. “I wonder if Chelda will just give me the hammer?”

“Chelda would do anything you asked her to do.”

“Yah,” he mocked Chelda’s gargan accent. “But she will want to smash the gem, Zeezle.” Vanx shuddered when one of the dragons roared above them.

The crackling gaseous stuff that jetted from the coral wyrm’s maw, was as full of lightning as the darker blue wyrm’s breath was, but the forks were smaller, and arced off each other to form a finer weaving of static. Some foul, probably toxic, gas steamed from the charge as it extinguished. The attack left Zeezle’s dragon falling sideways into the trees.

Avz was fierce, though. As he fell past the coral wyrm, he flapped his wing, and extended a claw. He found dragon flesh and ripped a wide set of slashes across the coral wyrm’s side.

Vanx and Zeezle saw this in the moonlight. Vanx ran toward where the two dragons had gone down, with the Glaive of Gladiolus already drawn and in his hand.

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