Never Cage a Dragon (Steel Dragon Book 6) by Kevin McLaughlin & Michael Anderle

Author:Kevin McLaughlin & Michael Anderle [Mclaughlin, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2022-01-12T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

After twenty-four hours, Kristen was led back to her cell. She should have felt happy or relieved, at least, that she could now see other faces, but she didn’t. Instead, it was merely a reminder that she didn’t belong there. She was locked up in this prison with other dragons even though she hadn’t done anything wrong and didn’t even see herself as they did. Her heart would always be human. None of these dragons felt that way.

Still, it was better to be back to the strangely comfortable bed in her prison cell. At least she could actually watch the time and eat what she wished. She could go outside or visit the library.

It was fairly obvious to her that her brawl with the six dragons wasn’t a secret. Everywhere she went, she received deferential nods. She didn’t know who’d told the story, but the fact that she had beaten six dragons seemed to impress most of the population in the prison or at least intimidate them.

Still, she would have given all that up for a friend right now. But even that was a weird thought. Why did she want to be friends with a dragon criminal? Considering that the burden of proof needed to keep a dragon in there seemed so high, she could assume that most of them were guilty of horrible things.

But could she? Maybe the only dragons who were released were those with benefactors. After all, that was how Obscura got out. And Kristen had battled Copperstrike, a dragon who’d trashed a town while battling with another, wealthier dragon. Both had damaged the city, and yet the richer one had gone free while the poorer one was still locked up. Maybe being in there had nothing to do with guilt or innocence and all to do with connections.

She felt a pang of guilt when that theory seemed to bear out.

The morning after her first day out of solitary, a guard arrived. He led her to a part of the prison she hadn’t seen since she’d been checked in.

Stonequest waited in the admittance room. He tried to smile but mostly looked as guilty as hell.

“What, no flowers?” she asked him before he could say anything.

He smiled awkwardly and cleared his throat before speaking. “There’s been another murder. The same method was used, and a dragon was killed without signs of struggle or battle. A tiny wound caused enormous damage and there is a DNA match with the others again.”

“I thought that DNA was supposed to be mine?” Kristen said. She knew it was a petty, stupid thing to say when she said it but she hadn’t had a real conversation with anyone since she’d been in there. Her social skills felt raw.

“I never thought it was, Kristen, you have to trust me on that. We were only doing our due diligence. Now that there’s been another murder, I was able to convince the Council that even if it is your DNA, it has to be someone else using it as you were locked up here.

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