Dragon Chameleon: Chase the Moon by Sarah K. L. Wilson

Author:Sarah K. L. Wilson [Wilson, Sarah K. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarah K. L. Wilson
Published: 2019-03-20T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

The golems were wheeling again. Glimpses of their dark bodies showed at every break in the dust storm. They were wheeling above me, waiting for the dust to clear enough to swoop down and attack. And the caves still weren’t safe – not until I could shut the doors.

I didn’t have a moment to waste. I scrambled up the steps, lost already in the dust, but hoping that by moving upward I’d be headed toward the tower.

My dust veil barely kept the swirling sand from choking me as I darted up the steps and then across one terrace to reach the next set of steps. Flashbacks of my time in the Trial came back in bursts. Steps and terraces here became ladders and platforms there in my mind’s eye. Maybe my mimic could help me out again. Maybe he could beat me to the tower.

“Yeah, see the thing about that is that I could do things in the trials because it was a non-corporeal world,” he said lazily, yawning idly from a place a little ahead of where I was running. “Here I don’t have a body. Not really. I’m just in your mind. A horrible mirror of who you are meant to taunt you forever.”

“I’m not you,” I muttered as I climbed. My fingernails were growing ragged from fumbling against the rough stone. “You’re lazy and mocking and useless.”

“I’m not your better half, I’ll admit that,” he said, “but I’m definitely a version of you that could exist – that would have existed without Hubric’s intervention.”

What a horrible thought. I hated this rotten apple already. I felt my cheeks heating at the thought. Did other people think that about me?

A burst of fire flashed across the ground right in front of me and I flinched against the rock wall. This would be a good time to have help from a dragon.

We’re overwhelmed right now.

They were under attack?

Don’t be angry.

Why did those words make me think there was a reason to be angry?

I couldn’t leave you here. Hubric wouldn’t have left anyway. We’re launching a counter-attack. Or we were, before they turned the tables on us.

I clenched my jaw grimly. I told her to leave!

I don’t answer to you.

It was for your own good! What good was having a dragon if she never listened to you?

I was under the tower now, close to where it rose above the rest of the cliffs. My legs ached from climbing. My muscles were like jelly from the effort. Seriously, after the last weeks of constant ladders and stairs and climbing, I would have thought they would be used to it by now!

I gritted my teeth and moved forward when a blast of fire hit the rock in front of me, chipping it with the force of the blow and sending little shards shooting painfully across my exposed skin. I closed my eyes just in time. When I opened them again, the rock in front of me was scorched and black.

That was close!

The dust was settling, the storm waning.

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