dragons breath 02 - dancing with flames by illene susan

Author:illene, susan [illene, susan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Urban Fantasy/New Adult/Post-apocalyptic
Publisher: Susan Illene
Published: 2016-06-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Aidan

No one ever truly appreciates their home until they are away from it. Aidan decided he’d never been more grateful to be born a Taugud than now. This morning he, Falcon, and Donar had been woken by several Faegud dragons and told they’d be participating in a tournament—one that was designed to test the speed, strength, and battle prowess of a warrior. The toriq would not begin negotiations with the Taugud until they proved their worthiness.

For the first activity, they conducted a race. It required Aidan and his companions, along with thirty-seven others, to fly up to the Red River. Once there, they were to pick up one of the blue stones waiting for them and return to the Jakhal. There were no other rules, so knocking out one’s opponents, taking more than one blue stone, or any other manner of devious behavior was allowed.

For Aidan, he might have been smaller than most of the other dragons, but he was also lean and fast. Only one Faegud ever got close enough to attack him—in the early part of the race—and he found himself with a torn wing for his troubles. Aidan picked up speed after that and never looked back. As it turned out, there was a dragon ahead of him who must have broken away from the pack early, but that was the only one who’d bested him.

Falcon was attacked several times, being slower and farther behind. He beat off his opponents, picked up one of the few remaining blue stones, and managed to come in twelfth in the race. Donar had never been a particularly fast flyer. When they were growing up, he almost always came in last or very near it. By the time he reached the Red River, all the blue stones were gone except a single one that four dragons were fighting over. What Donar lacked in speed, he made up for in strength and fierceness. He wormed his way into that fight, grabbed the blue stone, and made it a good distance away before the others realized it had been taken. Aidan was rather certain Donar flew faster than he’d ever managed before in his life, barely making it back before the others closed in on him.

After the race, they were given a light meal and told to prepare for the next event—tunnel digging. This was considered an important event to the Faegud. Aidan understood that, considering their living quarters, but he didn’t much care for doing it as a sport. Shape-shifters never dug unless they were burying the body of a loved one.

For that second event, they gathered at a field approximately a ten-minute flight from the jakhal. The forty participants were each given a section of land and a direction which to dig so that there would be no crossing over each other. Aidan and his companions were told to make their tunnels go as far as possible in the two hours they were given. Whoever dug the longest one would win, but all participants would have theirs measured and ranked.

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