Destiny of Dragons by Jack Campbell

Author:Jack Campbell [Campbell, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fantasy
ISBN: 9781625673633
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Published: 2018-08-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

The sense of a spell being formed peaked as she and Jason leaped to the other side of the road past the startled horses, who shied backwards in alarm.

Lightning tore into the road surface just behind them as she and Jason dove off toward the rocks a little downslope. Kira felt the electrical charge in the air above her as she dropped, saw the brilliant flash of light casting her and Jason’s shadows on the ground beneath them.

The horses snorted, panicked, the sound of their hooves rapidly diminishing down the road as they bolted.

She hit the ground painfully, rolling, jumping up, running, and pulling herself into the cover the rocks provided, looking for… “Jason!”

He’d paused outside the rocks, aiming upwards with the carbine.

Kira yanked out her pistol and snapped off a shot at a figure with a rifle who was aiming at them. Jason fired once before rifle shots from other spots sounded and bullets went cracking past overhead. She rose up far enough to grab Jason and pull him into cover.

They huddled among the rocks as bullets tore past overhead or spanged off the stones. “Don’t ever do that again!” Kira yelled at Jason over the sound of rifle fire.

“I thought I could hit him,” Jason argued, flinching down as stone chips flew from a nearby hit.

“Don’t do it any more! Promise me!”

“All right, I promise I won’t do that anymore. I thought I could hit him,” Jason repeated defensively.

“Did you?”

“No.” He lay next to her, holding the carbine. “Our plan worked. What’s the new plan?”

“We don’t die,” Kira said.

“Great plan.” Jason looked around. “If they get way up there on the right they might be able to shoot down at us in here.”

“That’d be a hard climb,” Kira said. “Let’s hope they can’t.” The rifle fire fell off except for an occasional single shot.

“What do you think they’re doing?”

“Wait.” She felt it, another spell, and knew what it was. “There’s at least one more Mage with them. He’s using the invisibility spell. Coming this way.”

“It’s not the lightning Mage?”

“No. Different guy. He feels different. I can’t explain it to someone who’s not a Mage.” Kira tracked the route of the second Mage. “He’s coming around this way, on my side.”

“What are we going to do? If you show that you know he is there, they might figure out you have Mage powers.”

“Can’t be helped,” Kira said. “Here he comes.” She raised her pistol, aiming.

A glowing pillar appeared around one of the rocks, less than a lance away.

She fired into the center of the pillar, lined up her sights and fired again, the Mage appearing with a jolt after the first shot and just in time for the second shot to knock him back and down.

They huddled down again as the rifles opened fire once more.

“Is he dead?” Jason asked.

“Yeah,” Kira said, thinking of the soldiers that Mage had helped kill yesterday. “He sort of… went out. That’s how it feels.”

“Weird.” Jason, lying full length on his back,

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