Doomsday Magic (Dragon's Gift: The Druid Book 5) by Linsey Hall

Author:Linsey Hall [Hall, Linsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781942085720
Publisher: Bonnie Doon Press
Published: 2018-08-19T18:30:00+00:00

10

Muffin led us through the desert, his head bowed against the wind. Once again, Bojangles pressed his face into Princess’s thick fur as they trudged across the plain.

Muffin stopped at an area that looked no different than where we’d just been. If the magic hadn’t been stronger here, I would have wondered why we were stopping at all.

“The shortcut is here?” Lachlan asked.

Right below me. Muffin fluttered above a patch of sand that looked the same as all the rest.

I pointed to it. “He says it’s right below him.”

Lachlan frowned. “Quicksand?”

“Could be.”

Bojangles raced forward and leapt onto the sand. Immediately, he sank into it, the tip of his tail disappearing last.

“Looks like you’re right.” I grimaced.

Princess Snowflake had a sour expression on her face, no doubt due to the idea of getting a ton of sand in her fur. It was already a mess from the blowing grains, but I had a feeling the quicksand was going to be a real nightmare.

She stalked forward, her gait stoic, until she began to sink down into the golden sand.

Get a move on. Muffin pointed his tail toward the sand.

I followed Princess, gasping when my foot sank into the sand up to my calf. I glanced back at Lachlan. “See you on the other side.”

This felt just like jumping into the Corryvreckan whirlpool. I hoped I survived this too.

The sand swallowed me up, rising past my knees, waist, shoulders, and finally my head. I took a deep breath and squeezed my eyes shut.

The world went black as I fell, and my stomach leapt into my chest.

When I landed on solid ground, I stumbled, going to my knees. I shook my head and brushed the sand off my eyelids, then opened them.

“Holy fates.”

A world of gold spread out in front of me, endless fields of the shining yellow stuff. Mountains of it formed to my left and right, with a plain of gold in front. Even the sky had a yellowish tinge.

Lachlan fell to the ground next to me. He wiped the worst of the sand off his face as he stood. Muffin appeared at my side.

“This is where you ran a heist with Bojangles and Princess Snowflake, isn’t it?” I asked Muffin.

Yep. The whole reason we came to hell.

“A dragon would love this place,” I muttered to him.

No dragons here. Just misers and spendthrifts.

I turned to him. “What?”

“This is level four, where misers and spendthrifts spend eternity.”

I frowned. “I would hardly say that merits a stay on the fourth level of hell.”

This place is from the fourteenth century. They were weird back then.

“Aye, very.” Lachlan inspected the area around us, his keen gaze alert for any dangers.

The gold glittered like the sun, and something tugged at my insides. I wasn’t super into gold like a FireSoul was, but even I was interested in a place like this. It was like my Dragon God side was sitting up and taking notice of all the shiny shiny. My fingertips itched to take something, but I resisted.

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