Dragons' Roost by Linda McNabb & GJ Kelly

Author:Linda McNabb & GJ Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Game of Thrones, Tui T Sutherland, fantasy adventure, magical adventure, magical fantasy, Dragon fantasy, Dragon stories, how to train your dragon, Eion Colfer, Rick Riordan
Publisher: Southern Star Publishing
Published: 2016-01-03T00:00:00+00:00

IT WAS PURELY BY LUCK that Keven found himself, Reena and Talia within inches of the dragonet's fast descent. They'd slipped away from the plateau unnoticed, and were working their way around the steep and debris-strewn rim in the clouds heading for the track. They hadn't seen the drama unfold behind them, using the melee to escape unseen.

A sudden piteous cry from above, lost in the cloud, rooted them to the spot, and then with a thud that knocked Keven to the ground, the dragonet burst through the thin veil of misty cloud and slammed directly on top of them.

“Keven, are you okay?” Reena was leaning over him anxiously and Talia was checking that the dragonet was unhurt.

“I'm fine,” Keven mumbled, dazed, and pushed himself into a sitting position only to find the equally dazed dragonet on his lap. He checked his elbows for grazes but found none. The protective effect from the dragonet he carried up the mountain must still be working, and he wondered how long it would last for. Was this the one he had carried? He ran his hand over the smooth scales but did not see the distinctive green patch on its back.

“Where do we hide it?” Talia looked nervously at the thick cloud around them. It would only be a few moments before the others reached them as they could hear their excited shouts nearing the edge of the plateau.

Keven handed the squirming dragonet to Reena and turned slowly in a circle, trying to place exactly where they were. It was almost impossible in the thick cloud, and they still had some way to go before they re-joined the winding track. But suddenly Keven had an idea.

“We can't be far from the sheer cliffside where the land slid away several years ago,” he told the others as he picked up a large stone and threw it heavily to the ground.

“What good will that do us?” Talia asked, looking puzzled. “We can't jump off it.”

“No,” Keven agreed as he began to drag the stone down the steep mountainside, covering his footprints with the stone as he went. “But we can make them all think that the dragonet fell over it.”

Keven paused to check his handiwork and nodded with satisfaction. It looked exactly as if something heavy had landed on the stony ground and slid down the mountain.

He dragged the stone quickly down the slope and then had to stop suddenly as he reached the precipice in the thinning cloud. Stepping cautiously to one side and backing away from the treacherous brink, he shoved the rock off the edge and watched it disappear.

Keven looked up and saw that Reena and Talia had followed him, and that they too were covering their footprints by pulling a part of a small bush behind them. Clever girls, he thought to himself.

“We'll keep going around the mountain to the track, and then head for the cave. Father and his men must have come up that way so they would have had to leave their horses down there.

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