Dragon Chameleon: City of Ice by Sarah K. L. Wilson

Author:Sarah K. L. Wilson [Wilson, Sarah K. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarah K. L. Wilson
Published: 2019-01-22T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Saboraak? My heart was pounding and my breathing ragged. I really liked that old lizard. She’d better be okay. Why was she so quiet?

Karema pulled a bracelet of metal feathers out of her pocket and it was all I could do to keep my features from betraying me. That was the exact item we needed for Bataar! In the book, it had said it was lost.

“I have what you need here,” Karema said, showing the bracelet to Zyla. When Zyla reached for it she pulled it away. “We don’t let customers handle merchandise until we receive payment. This is not a charity.”

“So, you need the dragon first?” Zyla asked. Her confident front was beginning to waver. I saw her hands fidgeting with the hem of her short coat.

“It’s your lucky day today,” Karema said. I had a feeling that if Karema thought something was lucky for me then the opposite was probably true. “We already have a deposit. You can take the item with you – but to get your deposit back, you must bring us payment. You have two days. If we don’t receive payment by then, we will keep the deposit.”

Saboraak? They wouldn’t have taken her as a deposit, would they? If they took her, I’d tear them limb from limb. I’d pour that silver swirl in Karema’s eyes on the ground myself. I’d –

I had no idea you were so attached to me already. I am touched. Though you will not need to become a barbarian on my account. I’m safe.

I breathed a sigh of relief. It had been a false alarm.

Not exactly. I had to flee the city.

What?!

“What sort of deposit do you have?” Zyla asked warily.

“Do you mean, what sort have we taken?”

Zyla was so still as she watched Karema that I thought she might be magically frozen in place. Karema’s expression took on a deadly look.

“Bring out the deposit.”

From behind her, a pair of armed men came out of a single door. They were holding Zin by her upper arms. She was wearing a simple grey dress – a gift of Apeq’s most likely. Her eyes were blank, as if she wasn’t able to even see us here. But I noticed a small bulge in her dress pocket. She still had the book I’d lent her! Perhaps she was not as distant as we sometimes thought. My eyes narrowed as I tried to catch her gaze. Could she give us a sign? Any sign at all? There was nothing.

The thought of her a captive once again filled me with an unfamiliar coldness that had nothing to do with the temperature in the room. This couldn’t be allowed to happen. I would not allow it.

I will fly back and give myself up for Zin.

No. There would be a third way.

I don’t see another alternative. How many armed people are around you?

The jewelry on the attendants here suddenly took on a new meaning. Was it magical? Should I consider that to be a weapon? If I did, then we were surrounded by seven armed guards.

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