Gold Dragon Codex by R.D. Henham

Author:R.D. Henham [Henham, R. D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-7869-5653-1
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Publishing
Published: 2010-01-26T05:00:00+00:00

he night passed like molasses pouring from a pitcher. Sandon stayed awake for it all, watching the moons’ slow, solemn progression across the second half of the sky. It took an eternity after the moons had set for the sun to rise, tickling the clouds at the eastern edge of the sky with yellow and pink. Sandon sat in his window, listening to the house wake up around him. Gallia cracked pots together in the kitchen. A guardsman took one of the horses from the stable and walked it around the courtyard to ease its stiffened leg. Sandon heard his father go downstairs, and voices rose in greeting as the baron met with Vilfrand and some of the other men. Only after the voices faded and a door downstairs closed loudly did Sandon get up.

Sandon remembered Kine’s words that pointed a finger at the baron. I’m just saying you should think about it, that’s all.

“Well, I thought about it,” Sandon muttered to himselfas he walked out of his room. “And I don’t like what I’m thinking.”

This time, Sandon passed his father’s chambers, the guest rooms, and the stairs leading down. He knew exactly where he was going.

His mother’s room.

The door was still unlocked from their escapade yesterday, when Uncle Vilfrand had caught Sandon and Kine trying to get out. Vilfrand still didn’t know about the secret closet in the baroness’s chambers, but that wasn’t the reason Sandon wanted to go back inside. This time, Sandon locked the door behind him and stuffed one of the armchair pillows against the crack at the floorboards so that any of the guards passing by wouldn’t hear noise inside. Nobody was going to be looking for Sandon right now anyway, so he had all the time in the world.

It took more than an hour to search the entire room. He looked inside every box, on top of all the shelves, even in the jewelry compartment where her necklaces and bracelets were stored. There had to be something, something that explained why his mother hadn’t told his father about the dragon, something that cleared his father of any kind of involvement. Sandon just couldn’t believe his father had anything to do with the baroness’s death.

At last, Sandon found what he was looking for. Wedged under the bed, in a corner as if it had fallen between the bed and the wall, was a small leather-bound journal. Exuberantly, Sandon jerked it out and sat down on the far side of the bed to read it.

The first page of the journal was dated about fifteen years before Baroness Lehna’s death. It, and every page thereafter, was written in her curling hand. Sandon started reading, flipping through the pages eagerly. Early entries talked about her life in the castle, how much she missed her parents, and about her suitors. Among them, Sandon recognized both his father’s name and Vilfrand’s. Vilfrand courted my mother? he pondered. It explained why Camiel’s brother had been so devoted to the barony that he’d become captain of its guard.

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