Reawakening by Durreson Amy Rae

Author:Durreson, Amy Rae [Durreson, Amy Rae]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2014-01-16T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20: Planning

HIS SPIRITS were still low the next morning. He soothed them by making his way onto the top of Myrtilis’s citadel. It stood higher than the mountains around it, separated from them by broad canyons. The top was an expanse of wind-rounded crags, veined by time and perfectly shaped for a large golden dragon to drape himself across and spread his wings toward the sun.

It must have been one more bitter blow to the mer king, he thought gloomily, to lose this as well as the ocean. Citadels so vast and proud were hard to come by, and the work of generations to carve from virgin rock. He himself had helped carve the halls of High Amel from the granite when he had first gathered his hoard and promised them a home beneath his wing.

Would Myrtilis let him home his new hoard here, or would he have to haggle with Gard for a mountain of his own?

“I see Dit wasn’t exaggerating at all,” an amused voice remarked by his front knee. “You really are ridiculously large.”

The dragon looked down to see Gard smirking up at him, and laid his head down where he wouldn’t have to look at him. “You know this form already.”

“Yes,” Gard said brightly, “but when I last saw it, I was also ridiculously large. You must be quite intimidating for mere mortals. How many can you fit in your mouth at a time?”

“I don’t eat people,” the dragon informed him, and then swiveled his head around in indignation when he felt hot human hands on his scales. “What are you doing?”

Gard climbed up the side of his leg as easily as a mountain goat, scrambling up from scale to scale to perch on his knee. “I couldn’t see you from down there. Is it safe for you to be up here? I rather like some of the people inside, and it would be a shame if the roof collapsed on them.”

“I have the queen’s permission,” the dragon told him and narrowed his eyes as Gard began to dig at a bit of moss that was still stuck between his scales. It had been irritating him, but not as much as Gard. “Stop that.”

“I’ve nearly got it,” Gard said. “You’re a lot cleaner in human form, you know. Understandably, of course—how could you find a bathhouse big enough?”

“Go away,” the dragon said. His fires were healthy, but he felt cold, aware again that he was without a proper hoard and weak. He wasn’t in the mood for Gard’s humor, especially at his expense. Was hating him not enough to satisfy the ridiculous sprite?

“But I want to know what you’re doing,” Gard protested, arranging himself more comfortably along the dragon’s upper leg, stretching out with his legs crossed and his hands behind his head.

“I am watching for the dead,” the dragon informed him.

“And what are you going to do from up here?”

“Burn them,” the dragon murmured, letting a little of his frustration rumble out in his voice.

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