Dragonslayer by Tui T. Sutherland

Author:Tui T. Sutherland
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2019-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

Rowan lunged for Leaf, wrapping her arms around his legs and dragging him back down. The dark red dragon made an annoyed clicking noise and shook Leaf as though Rowan were a troublesome ant. When she clung tighter, it hissed, grabbed her in its other claws, and yanked her away from him.

“Rowan!” Leaf called, struggling to yell over the edge of the dragon’s fist. “Rowan, when you get to the arena, kill a dragon for me!”

“Don’t you die, Leaf,” she screamed back. “Don’t you dare get eaten, too!”

And then the grate was getting dizzily closer and closer, and that was all Leaf could see for a moment, until the dragon soared out of the trapdoor and Leaf caught fractured glimpses of a huge bustling kitchen full of frantic dragons. Dragons chopping fruit; dragons stirring cauldrons of soup; dragons stacking elaborate-looking appetizers on plates.

It looked a lot like Talisman preparing for a feast, except the vibe in this kitchen was a lot more “someone’s going to kill us if we get this wrong.” Leaf wasn’t sure how he sensed that — something in the way the dragons held their wings in tightly, pushed one another aside to grab things, and scurried from station to station with tense expressions.

It was all weirdly human, actually. He was probably imagining most of it — thinking the dragons had feelings like humans did, the way his sister Bluebell used to think every butterfly was her friend and truly loved her.

The world tilted sideways and Leaf was swung upside down as the dragon veered through a doorway and up into the heart of the palace. Leaf remembered copying this from the map, more than once because it was hard and he kept getting it wrong. There was a giant hall in the center, with several levels of balconies all around it, a huge hole in the roof above, and windows open to the night sky everywhere. Fires burned in many of the rooms off the balconies, giving the whole palace an ominous smoky glow and a charred smell.

The wind rushed past Leaf’s ears, but he could still hear the flapping of dragon wings all around him. Dragons were rushing from level to level. The one carrying him snapped at a dragon carrying a pile of firewood who nearly crashed into them.

Suddenly the dragon banked left, sending blood rushing into Leaf’s ears, and whooshed through a tunnel, then right through an enormous doorway that led outside.

After five days in a box, Leaf would have thought going outside would be a huge relief. But it was hard to appreciate the fresh air when there were approximately eight hundred zillion dragons out there waiting to eat him.

He was on a plateau surrounded by sheer cliffs going up on one side and even more sheer cliffs going down on the other. The plateau was full of dragons milling around, looking exactly as awkward as all the villagers did during Dragonmancer Appreciation Day celebrations.

Globes of fire hung over the party, lighting

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