Kingdom by Kyle West

Author:Kyle West [West, Kyle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-21T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

QUIETUS LANDED BY THE SHIP and I slid off her back in one fluid motion. I landed lightly on my feet in front of where the others were waiting.

Quietus backed away to give us room.

“How’d it go?” Ret asked.

I shook my head. “Not well.”

I explained everything while they listened. Once I reached the part about the dragon swarm heading east and the description of the city, Nabea interrupted.

“That’s Atlantea,” he said. “It has to be!”

“The description seems to fit,” Isandru said. “Though I’ve never seen the city itself, I’ve read about it before.”

“If that’s the case,” Nabea said, “then what are we still doing here?”

He was already going up the ramp, inputting the code to open the blast door.

“Nabea is right. We need to get moving.” I nodded toward the ship. “Everyone on board.”

As they filed up the ramp, Fiona came up to me. “Do you even think it’s possible to stop the dragons?”

“I’ll get to that as soon as we’re on board.”

I could see she was frustrated with my answer, but she nodded. “All right.”

I followed her up the ramp, turning to face Quietus once again.

Is there anything you can do to convince Tiamat to help?

My son is . . . willful. More than any dragon I have ever known. And he has his reasons. All that he has told me is true.

Can the dragons escape Earth, if that’s what they want?

Yes, Quietus said, it’s possible.

You wouldn’t do that, would you?

You may not remember fully your days as Anna, but I do. Askal and I fought battles with you and your friends. We gave everything we had. That time was . . . different. Even if we died, because of the nature of the Xenofold then, we would have been reborn on another world. But if we fight in a way that gives everything, on this world . . . we may never wake again if we fail here.

I don’t understand. You’ve lost worlds before. Hundreds of them. And you were always reborn on the next?

Yes. We cannot take with us what we learned or how we grew; we are born as we were on the World of Worlds, Askalon. None of the wars lasted long . . . not so long as we have stayed here. It is difficult to explain. Our names are the same, but the realities are different. Such as suits the Nameless One’s sense of balance.

He is the one that confuses most of all. Alex spoke with him before he gave himself to kill Askala. He didn’t really win, did he?

He did all that could be done, Quietus said. He did what he was supposed to. His power will need to be awakened to defeat the Radaskim in full. His power can only be awakened if the Hyperfold is destroyed.

I need to speak to the Nameless One then.

Even now, the Hollow withers away . . . but I can sense its trace in my mind. It isn’t gone yet. When it has left fully, perhaps the door in the lake will be open.

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