Seeker's Quest (Seeker's World Book 2) by K. A. Riley

Author:K. A. Riley [Riley, K. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-06T05:00:00+00:00

The Mountaintop

With a mysterious smile, Callum told me to stay exactly where I was.

“What’s going on?” I asked as he backed away. “Where are you going?”

But he shook his head and brought a finger to his lips.

When I moved to join him, he held up a hand, stopping me in my tracks.

“You’re not going to…” I began.

“Oh yes, I am.”

My heart hammered with excitement.

I’d wanted to see Callum’s golden dragon up close since the first time I’d laid eyes on him. But to request such a thing seemed a little too personal. I may as well have asked him to bare his soul to me and then let me poke and prod at it.

Magical powers were the private domain of those who possessed them, not to be used or abused for someone else’s amusement. It was the same reason I didn’t give Niala’s Familiar, Rourke, belly rubs as I might to a dog or cat in Fairhaven. He wasn’t a pet. He was a part of her. He was a walking manifestation of her thoughts, her fears, her needs.

Still, Callum had offered freely. And there was no way I was going to ask him to stop or hold back. The prospect of seeing his dragon form in the flesh was way too exciting.

Even if it was also a little terrifying.

When he was about fifty feet away, he shot me one final look before a flash of blinding light filled the air around us. I flung my arm over my eyes protectively.

A second later, when the world had seemingly gone back to normal, I looked again.

An exquisite creature covered in gleaming scales was standing in the field of long grass, wildflowers surrounding the impossibly large claws on his enormous scaled feet.

His head was shaped like those of the dragons I’d met in the queen’s castle: a long, almost equine muzzle, tapering a little at the tip. Smoke billowed from elegant nostrils—not in a threatening way, but just enough to remind me what he was capable of. He was a beast of power and flame.

He was incredible.

I froze in place. Was I supposed to approach? Was it even safe? Did Callum in his dragon form even know or care who I was, or was he now a wild animal with no attachment to me whatsoever?

As if in response, the dragon shoved his head toward the ground, his snake-like, shining eyes looking at me like he was trying to encourage me to approach. My body tightening, I took one step, then another, and another, before I finally found myself standing right next to his muzzle.

Without thinking, I laid a hand on his surprisingly smooth cheek, caressing the scales, then slid my palm along his long neck, which was lined at its crest with a mane of threatening-looking spikes. Each was long and jagged, made of something that was neither bone nor scale, but translucent, like gold-stained glass. The beautiful skewers glittered with dancing light like perfectly formed icicles on a mid-winter day.

The dragon’s

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