(eng) Michael La Ronn - The Last Dragon Lord 02 by Old Evil

Author:Old Evil [Evil, Old]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

XXI

The alarms grated against Miri’s ears. She had never heard anything louder in her life. They swelled and blared and screamed, and she wondered if they would give her temporary hearing loss.

Earl pushed open the brushed metal doors into the factory production floor, and a blast of hot air hit them as they ran inside.

Dark’s cage was busted open. The metal bars twisted upon themselves as if they had suffered an explosion. Glass was scattered all over the floor.

Their eyes went up to the glass skylight, which was broken and let in soft moonbeams that glinted off the shards of broken glass.

“We’ve got to get the alarms off,” Lucan said. He stopped at an electrical box and entered a passcode. Then the alarms quickly stopped and the area grew silent.

Even though the alarms had stopped, Miri’s ears still rang.

“Damn,” Lucan said, inspecting the damage. He dug his hands into his pockets and whistled. “How the hell did he get out?”

Miri walked around the cage, studying it. She couldn’t make sense of the aftermath. “You tell me. I thought you had safety measures to prevent it.”

“Alarms. I magicked the cage myself. The bars were reinforced steel. Not even a dragon could bust through them.”

Miri ran her fingers along one of smooth steel bars. It was grimed with meat grease. She smelled the fat; it was still fresh.

Lucan was on his phone. “Officer? No, there’s no need to come. One of my employees accidentally tripped the alarm. That’s all. No, no, thank you for calling. Sorry to have interrupted your night.”

He hung up and tucked the phone in his shirt pocket. “I just saved us all from some very uncomfortable questions. That’s about the only victory we can claim tonight.”

Earl cleared his throat. He had been standing near a forklift. The keys were still in the ignition. “Sir, if the police weren’t here yet, wouldn’t that mean the dragon was nearby? His wings were busted, weren’t they?”

“Good point,” Lucan said. He looked above and focused on a ladder that led up to the roof.

“Are there security cameras?” Miri asked.

“Nope,” Lucan said. “They’re wirelessly connected so I was afraid of them being hacked.”

He started for the ladder but Earl grabbed his arm. “You can’t go up there. What if he’s waiting?”

“I’ve got a spell ready for him,” Lucan said, patting his pocket.

“But your arm, sir.”

Lucan clucked his tongue. “Miri, get up there.”

But she ignored him. She entered the cage and knelt. The smell of vomit assaulted her nose. Then she noticed a pile of it on the floor.

“Lucan,” she said nervously.

She reached down and picked up several vomit-stained grimoires.

“What the—” Lucan’s eyes widened. “Are you fucking kidding me? How did he get them?”

Miri pointed to several stacks of grimoires in the distance. Sarcastically, she said “They’re everywhere. It’s a grimoire factory.”

Lucan shook his head. “The stacks were away from the cage. Gus and Orion made sure of that. He couldn’t have reached them if he tried. Plus, the cage was sealed with a magical barrier.

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