Dragonwatch, Book 3: Master of the Phantom Isle by Mull Brandon

Author:Mull, Brandon [Mull, Brandon]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Shadow Mountain
Published: 2019-10-20T16:00:00+00:00

Her breathing sped up and her lungs ached. The fire in her legs made her cry out. Her heart felt like it would burst. But her pace still resembled a sprint.

Behind her, the stand of bamboo seemed to explode as Mombatu reached it. He wasn’t brushing it aside—he was blasting straight through. Glancing back, she saw that the triclops had gained on her. She didn’t intend to run slower, but it hurt so much, and the thick vegetation was grasping at her.

Her legs were becoming unreliable. Her vision was blurring.

And then the effects of the potion ended.

Kendra stumbled forward, trying to maintain enough desperation to keep moving, willing herself not to pass out. She lumbered drunkenly ahead, the ground seeming to tilt back and forth beneath her feet.

Where were those smelling salts?

She heard Mombatu gaining quickly, roaring exultantly.

She reached a clearing. Up ahead, in the distance beyond the clearing, she saw some platforms in the trees.

“Send help,” she mumbled incoherently, tottering out into the field.

Kendra didn’t remember falling, but she noticed when she hit the ground, landing on her side. Woozy, gasping, she pushed up onto her hands and knees and crawled forward. She had to keep moving.

Her arms gave out and she twisted onto her side, looking back as the colossal triclops stormed into the clearing. Raising his balled fists high, Mombatu closed in.

Before he reached her, with a dazzling flash, Mombatu split into three smaller creatures.

Kendra blinked her eyes and shook her head. Surely she was hallucinating. Was she seeing triple? The world was seesawing, and she was imagining the triclops had divided into smaller components.

She couldn’t blink it away. The three beings remained separate. They gathered around her, looming over her, perhaps ten feet tall.

Kendra closed her eyes.

“Are you all right?” a calm, deep voice asked.

“Tired,” Kendra said. “I took a speed potion.”

“You’re safe now,” said another voice, deep and melodious. “At least safe from us.”

“I just need a minute,” Kendra said, unsure if she could remain conscious. “Who is talking? Did you really just split into three?”

“Within areas protected by the watchers, we are the guardians of the Sunset Pearl,” a third voice said, less deep than the other two, but perhaps the richest.

Kendra tried to sit up, but she slumped back down.

“Let yourself recover,” the first voice said.

“I’m going to sleep well tonight,” Kendra said, her mind cloudy. “I got all my wiggles out.”

She heard footsteps coming nearer, accompanied by ragged panting. Somebody dropped down beside her, and she smelled Tanu’s salts.

“Yikes!” she exclaimed, sitting up, eyes watering.

“I assume you’re peaceful?” Tanu checked with the guardians.

“We mean you no harm,” the third voice answered.

After rubbing her eyes clear, Kendra looked up. These three hulking humanoids had light gray bodies. Leaner than Mombatu, they had more defined muscles. Each was bald except for a long ponytail, and none of them had eyes—just a big blank forehead above the nose.

“You must be Himalayan cyclopses,” Tanu said.

“Correct,” the second voice said.

“Your only eye is a third eye,” Kendra said, remembering a conversation with Eve.

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