Stone Guardian (Entwined Realms) by Monsch Danielle

Author:Monsch, Danielle [Monsch, Danielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Romantic Geek Publishing
Published: 2013-06-25T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

“Are you ashamed that you’re with me?”

They were in her home now, and these were the first words Larissa had spoken since the end of battle. After their enemy was defeated, Terak had gathered her close and flew away, not giving the Guild members time to respond. She said nothing and cuddled close, burying herself in his arms.

“What?” Why would she ever think that?

She shrugged, the movement jerky, her shoulder half-hunched inward. “I’m useless. I sit on a wall surrounded by a magic barrier while Aislynn fires an arrow a second and Fallon slices through an army.”

He despised the beaten note that threaded her voice. “I would never be ashamed to be at your side. And you must stop comparing yourself to them. The world needs its warriors and it needs its peacemakers. You have experienced too much war these last weeks. It has you questioning your worth.” Why did the one woman he wished to keep far away from the brutal reality of this world find herself always buried in yet another battle?

Larissa unfurled her body and looked at him. Instead of fear or loathing clouding her gaze, he saw warmth.

Thankfulness.

Admiration.

“I know you’re right. No one can be all things.” She shrugged, her mouth flattening. “I never cared about fighting or… any of that. When I was a kid, I never wanted to play cops and robbers, though it was the only game my brothers would play. Too violent and I didn’t like all the fighting. I just wanted to read.”

“So you didn’t play with your siblings?” That didn’t seem to fit with the closeness he had witnessed between the siblings.

“Oh no, they forced me to play. They always made me the robber and would cuff me, though Dad said never to play with his handcuffs. Joke was on them, though.” She lifted her arm until her hand was in his line of vision and rotated her wrists. “Double-jointed. No matter how tight they made the cuffs, I could get out. Made them so mad.”

Her fondness for her siblings banished the last lingering traces of any self-doubt. Her eyes brightened with memory and glee before she banked both, her gaze now holding a question. “Back to tonight. You called Fallon Dragon Slayer. What did you mean by that?”

“Her sword, Tenro, is a sacred weapon and known as the Slayer of Dragons.”

“But I thought dragons didn’t exist – never existed – even in the Magic Realm.” His face must have betrayed his feelings because Larissa’s own eyebrows drew together and she asked in a hesitant voice, “Did they?”

“I have never seen any true record of their existence,” he conceded, letting the full weight of his misgivings play into his tone.

Her face still held the same hesitance. “But…?”

“But I cannot forget something my father once said. He said with all the terrible creatures we have that are real, why would anyone create the myth of the dragon? And if dragons are even half as powerful as they are portrayed, would

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