Rise of the Dragons by Angie Sage

Author:Angie Sage [Sage, Angie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2018-03-25T04:00:00+00:00

Later that night, D’Mara and Edward stood on the roof of D’Mara’s lookout and watched the skies. It was a clear night with a bright moon that illuminated a few small clouds in their usual place above Mount Lennix.

“Can we be sure Kaan went through a portal?” Edward asked. “You don’t think he was just boasting, telling stories? He’s not the most truthful of our children, to put it mildly.”

“I believe him,” D’Mara said. “You can always tell when Kaan is lying. He looks up to the left and fiddles with his right earlobe.”

“Does he?” Edward was surprised.

“I wouldn’t expect you to spot subtle signs like that, Edward, but yes, he does. Every time. And this time he didn’t. Not once. And he wasn’t boasting, was he? He didn’t really want to talk about it.”

Edward was surprised. He thought D’Mara hardly noticed their children. “Well,” he admitted, “Decimus thinks the Lost Lands might really exist too.”

Now it was D’Mara’s turn to be surprised. “Well, well. And I always thought that Lock of yours was a bit of a bonehead. Good for him.”

Edward was thinking. “So if the Silver took Kaan through a portal,” he said, “why are you giving him Valkea to Lock with—surely he should stay with the Silver?”

“Kaan is no good for the Silver,” D’Mara said. “I see that now. He’s too big, too clumsy. The Silver is a delicate beast. He’ll damage him and we can’t risk that.”

“Kaan didn’t look right with him,” Edward agreed.

D’Mara nodded. “And they didn’t Lock, that’s for sure. There was absolutely no communication between them. But we have the Silver now and that is what matters. Because with it the Lost Lands are lost to us no more!”

To Edward’s shock, D’Mara grabbed his hands and looked down into his eyes, holding his gaze uncomfortably. “Edward, don’t you see? This is why I wanted that Silver egg. This is why I walked all that way to the ghastly Zolls’ place to get that dragon. Our world is no good anymore. We’ve used it up. There is nothing left for us or the Raptors. This wonderful Silver is the key to our very survival. With it we can go to a place full of humans just waiting to be used. We can go through to those Lost Lands and make them our own. Edward, those lands and all in them belong to us.”

“I understand. Believe me, I do,” Edward said, desperate to escape the piercing gaze.

D’Mara laughed and, to Edward’s relief, let go of his hands and spun around to look out of the window up at the sky, where there lay a myriad of invisible links to a whole new world that they now had access to. “We Lennixes are not finished yet, Edward. Just think how grateful our Raptors will be to eat human flesh again,” she said, touching a subject she knew Edward held dear.

Edward became animated. “It will be just like the old days, before we had to go over to sheep.

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