Dragon Sight by D. K. Holmberg

Author:D. K. Holmberg [Holmberg, D. K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2018-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Fes made it back to the courtyard, where he waited near Larshon for the others to join him. The emperor might be preparing for war, but Fes didn’t know that he was doing so with all the knowledge that he needed. In fact, he suspected that there was very much that he didn’t know about.

Jayell joined them. She climbed on board the dragon, waiting for Fes as he looked around the courtyard. It was quiet, much like so much of the palace was quiet. There was activity within it, and as he paid attention, he recognized the scurrying movements of servants, of couriers making their way from place to place, all of them passing on word of the impending troop movement.

Here in the courtyard, there was nothing but silence.

It was almost peaceful, and it would have been were it not for what it meant for the empire. There was something different about this preparation, and about this war. Fes had been trying to convince the emperor of the danger of the attack for nearly a year, and now he would finally listen?

It seemed that there needed to be more to these preparations.

Worse, the Damhur seemed to have access to a new and dangerous weapon. It was the kind of weapon that Fes had no idea how to counter and doubted that the empire had any greater ability to counter, either. If it was the same as the creature that had attacked the dragon, this weapon was one that the empire would not be able to withstand—not without the dragons’ help.

“Why are we going so quickly?”

“I don’t know that we have any choice but speed,” Fes said.

“You want to stay ahead of the empire?”

“We need to go to the dragons, and we need to get Deshazl—either Asharn or the Thoras Deshazl—to help with them. If they can connect to the dragons the same way as I have with Larshon, then maybe they can allow the dragon to be able to see out of their eyes the same way that he did with me.”

“That wasn’t how you survived the creature,” she said.

“No, but it’s the way they are going to have to survive the next one. Until we understand what it is that the Damhur are doing, what weapon they have uncovered, I don’t know that we have much of a choice.”

If they did nothing, Fes suspected that the empire would not survive this attack. The emperor believed in the might of the fire mages, the same way Azithan believed in the might of the fire mages. Fes wasn’t so naïve as to think that they had superiority over the Damhur when it came to using that sort of power. It was possible that the Damhur had records from before the war, from a time long ago, that would allow them to use power in a way that the empire could not. If they were able to do that, there would be very little that the fire mages could do to withstand the might of the Damhur.

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