Eberron: The Lost Mark, Book 03 - Queen of Death by Matt Forbeck

Author:Matt Forbeck [Forbeck, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7869-4012-7
Publisher: Fanversion Publishing
Published: 2017-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

The soarwing appeared off to the port again, closer this time. Esprë could see the green-scaled rider now, his long, thin tongue slipping out of his mouth and flapping in the wind. He pulled back his lips to bare his rows of sharp, white teeth as he glared at her with his baleful, yellow eyes.

Esprë froze. The rider’s reptilian form reminded her so much of the half-dragon Ibrido that she feared that the villain had somehow come back to life and chased them across the desert, the mountains, and the plains to finally finish them off here, before they could even leave Khorvaire behind in their quest to confront his distant masters. She watched as he brought back his arm to hurl a feathered spear at her, and she had no doubt that it was destined to pierce her heart.

Then the lizardman squealed in surprise as the soarwing under him swerved toward the airship. A crossbow bolt sailed through the air, just missing the creature and causing it to duck in the direction of the Phoenix.

The movement shocked Esprë into action. She roared at the fire elemental in her mind, and the ship lurched toward the soarwing.

The ring of fire caught one of the thunder lizard’s wings and crisped it in an instant. The beast screeched in mortal pain as it tried to flap away from the airship on its single remaining wing.

Thrown from his mount, the lizardman spun off into the sky and disappeared beyond the port rail. The soarwing, though, flopped toward the deck and landed hard on its wooden surface to the sound of breaking bones. It did not move again.

“Where’s the other one?” Esprë yelled. “Where is it?”

Xalt scanned the sky but saw just as little as Esprë. Then he flung his head over the bow. A moment later, he sprang back up. “Down there!” he said. “Down and to port!”

Grateful to have some direction to head in—any direction at all—Esprë pushed the airship in that direction. As she did, Monja let loose of her leather strap and flung herself to the bridge’s rear gunwale.

“He’s going after the wagon,” Monja said, straining to be heard over the roar of the ring of fire. “He looks like he’s going to—Spirits! He killed one of their horses. I think they’re going to crash!”

Esprë’s heart sank, but she pushed out with her mind harder, striving to shove the performance of the airship’s elemental to new heights. Just as the wagon hove into view beneath the twisting and turning Phoenix, something dropped past the airship’s deck at top speed, heading right for the wagon below.

Then Esprë realized that the falling object wasn’t something but someone. “Te’oma!” she shouted, fearful of what the treacherous changeling might do. “Te’oma!”

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