Dragon Chameleon: Episodes 1-4 (Dragon Chameleon Omnibuses) by Sarah K. L. Wilson

Author:Sarah K. L. Wilson [Wilson, Sarah K. L.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Sarah K. L. Wilson
Published: 2019-06-12T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

I FELT A TINGLING IN the air. Without realizing it, I had stepped onto the platform. I could see the other two arms branching off next to the one I’d followed. Guards stood at the edges of the arms as if they were afraid to step on the platform, their eyes wide and their faces tight with fear.

Above me, the tingling air leapt and jumped along the intersecting arches, sizzling with leaping blue light.

“Where is it?” Shabren asked quietly, as if he was afraid his voice would shatter our special moment.

“In my hands, genius.”

Beneath me, the song in a thousand throats caught for a moment before morphing into something brighter, something almost triumphant. I didn’t understand it. But one thing I did know – I was glad my face was covered. I had a terrible feeling that every set of eyes in the city could see me right now.

“Not the spider, the book. Hubric didn’t have it when we caught up to him. There’s only one person he could have given it to.”

Caught up to them? Did they have Hubric? Was he okay? And what book was he talking about? Did he mean that weird prophecy book Hubric gave me before he left?

The spider pulled upward, as if being sucked up to where the arches intersected, but I held on tight even when it yanked my arms above my head and my sleeves fell down around my elbows. I wasn’t letting go of this thing. It was the most valuable thing I owned – or at least, I thought so. I was going to have to look at that book again.

There was a gasp – a gasp like the rush of the tide, a gasp torn from several thousand throats. Shabren’s eyes were locked on my arms above my head. I looked up. The silver tattoos glowed in the blue light of the arches.

At the arms of the other two arches, the guards dropped to their knees.

“The Ko,” Shabren breathed.

Run. I sense ... terrible evil.

Run where?

The spider ripped from my hands, rocketing up to the apex of the arches and sticking there as if by magic. I’d lost my only hope of fighting back – not that it had been working for me anyway.

Run anywhere!

“You’ll never escape now, boy.”

I let my eyes narrow and clenched my jaw. I’d never been a hero. I kept telling people that.

Then be a gambler. It’s what you keep on saying you are! Take a gamble. Do something no one would predict.

Okay, Saboraak. It’s now or never. You want to be my dragon? You get one chance at this.

I smiled at Shabren. “Watch me.”

I turned my back on him and ran, jumping through the arch and leaping out into the empty air beyond. If you’re going to die, do it dramatically.

My legs and arms wind-milled as I dropped, a meteor falling from the sky. My heart was in my throat, tears streaking down my face. What had I done? This gamble was too much!

It might be my last big bet.

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