Dragon Connection by Ava Richardson

Author:Ava Richardson [Richardson, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-24T16:00:00+00:00

We swooped through the night, as silent as a whisper. From this height Inyene’s workcamp where I had spent almost a quarter of my life looked so… futile. The four great wooden sheds where they housed us were small boxes, and the other assembled buildings – everything from the guard towers to the stone factory sheds – looked shabby and ill-made.

But my superior viewpoint revealed an ugly reality: I could see the open-topped rectangle of another great shed going up. They could fit almost a hundred Daza in just one, I knew. And then there was the constant smoke from the smelting shed. From up here in the clean mountain air, I could smell clearly how greasy and poisonous they were. Totally unlike dragon fire, I now knew – which to me smelled clean and purifying.

“Ssss…” Ymmen announced his concern, although he didn’t need to. Another two dragons had been added to Inyene’s three, in just the short time that we had been away. I growled in sympathy with the dragon.

“Abioye,” I tried to concentrate on our task at hand. He had to be down there somewhere – but where? I had a hunch that he would either be at the sheds or at his sister’s keep, and my gaze lifted to regard the place that had stood sentinel over my incarceration.

Inyene’s keep sat on the last saddle of rock before the Masaka foothill eased into the dark-lit plains beyond. It didn’t look as though it had ever been anything other than a martial place, and I struggled to imagine it as somewhere nice, and not just a blot on the landscape.

Her keep was built of old stone, vast gray blocks at its base that were almost as large as some of the sheds, growing smaller as the walls climbed. The walls weren’t terribly high, only about four or five stories I guessed. But they were wide and thick, and joined onto a taller inner keep built of the same gray granite. From this height, I could see that there was a wide walkway on the inner side of the wall, just under the battlements, and that constant fires burned in metal dishes around its circumference.

The entire keep looked to be hunched and snarling, and the only part of it that was in any way graceful (although I hesitated to even use that word) was a singular tower that sat on one side of the Keep. I could not know of course, but I rather thought that it had been from here that I had felt Inyene’s wave of power.

Maybe… The tangle of rage in my chest forced me to consider the possibility: Maybe we could. I thought of what I wanted to do. Kill Inyene. Make her pay for all the suffering that she had caused to me, my family, and friends – to everyone. But it was an ugly, nasty thought and it felt sour in my mind. Ymmen sensed my fury and was already turning his slow, soundless flight towards the keep.

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