Call of the Dragon by Jessica Drake

Author:Jessica Drake [Drake, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dynamo Press
Published: 2018-05-16T16:00:00+00:00

11

The next morning, I went straight to the academy’s library, and prepared to buckle down for a long day of research.

“I must say this is rather unusual,” the librarian—a stern, elderly man with a small shock of white hair atop his otherwise bald head—said after I’d introduced myself and told him what I wanted. “It is rare that any student willingly comes into the library on the weekend. Most of you are still at your homes, usually sleeping off excess amounts of wine, at this hour of the morning.” The tone of his voice was disapproving, but I couldn’t tell if his disapproval was directed at the other students for drinking and reveling, or at me for not joining them.

“I can see that,” I said in a low voice, casting my gaze around the large space. It was far too cavernous for me to see everything, but there was a study area not far from us—sparsely populated rows of long, oak tables with green lamps, a few teachers, and two level-three students. “I’m a bit disadvantaged from everyone else, having grown up on the ground, so I thought I’d come here and try to catch up on my dragon lore.”

The librarian nodded, some of the suspicion lifting from his wizened face. “A sensible decision,” he agreed. “Most riders have been listening to the tales of dragon kind from the moment they were large enough to bounce on their fathers’ knees.” He paused. “If you’d like, I can help you pick out a selection of texts.”

“That would be wonderful,” I told him.

I followed the librarian through the maze of shelves, and in no time headed back to the study area with an armful of books. Although I had a rudimentary understanding of Dragon War history, there weren’t very many books available on the subject to ground-dwellers, since, like everything else dragon-related, they were kept hidden away under lock and key. Salcombe had a small collection, of course, but he’d always guarded those texts jealously as they were extremely rare. I’d tried to break into the vault where he stored them, but he’d caught me, and had been so terrifyingly angry that I had never dared tried again.

I spent the next couple of hours poring over the texts the librarian had given me, looking for specifics on the World Eater and his demise. Most of what I read was about the origins of dragon riders, embellished tales about Akron the Defender and the horde of newly created riders he’d led to victory. Unsurprisingly, the texts seemed to glorify the dragon riders’ courage and prowess, but said very little about the participation and help they must have received from not only the common people of Elantia but also the other countries around the world that had joined the fight.

But as I delved into the more obscure offerings the librarian had unearthed, I learned a bit more. One text went into more depth about the mages of that time period, and in the appendix, contained a section on mage lineages.

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