Taken by the Alien Dragon by Stella Cassy

Author:Stella Cassy [Cassy, Stella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-13T16:00:00+00:00

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Moddoc

Even before Alm tottered onto the bridge, my wings fluttered in anticipation of Esmerelda. She had deliberately withheld information from me after we had come to an amicable arrangement. Was this what celibacy did to Drakon physiology? I looked back twice before I gave up and waited for her to appear. She peeked around the door, then stepped into full view when she locked onto my gaze.

“I found my way here.” Esmerelda stood in the doorway and chewed the left side of her bottom lip.

“You had a guide.” I nodded toward Alm who was at her second favorite spot, the top of three steps I’d built in the corner for her to stare out at the stars. “They are never in the same place,” Almordae had complained many times.

Esmerelda grabbed hold of the wall and bumped her shoulder into it repeatedly. “You sent it — him —”

“Her,” I corrected. “I did.”

“Hey, what is little thing anyway? You called her an Almorday?” She waved at Alm. I ignored what she asked.

“Where did you get her?” I asked the question I’d wanted to pose to her since I first saw Alm.

“My last haul from a Nmeck ship.” She hovered on the threshold, her eyes questioning, and as soft as they were when she was in my arms. “So she is an Almorday. I’ve never heard of one of those before.”

“Not an Almorday. She is Almordae. My daughter. I… feel it. She knows my ship. She has my daughter’s eyes. I…”

Esmeralda peered at me suspiciously, like she was trying to judge my mental health. Perhaps she was right to do so. Maybe banging my head against the bars of the prison cell had caused more harm than I thought. How could my daughter have returned, in this new form?

I stared at the fluffy little creature, and it returned the look with big, brown innocent eyes. Eyes that held no deceit, no secrets, no lies. Just curiosity and love. What kind of creature was she anyway?

“I have never seen a being like her outside of the pages of a book,” I say finally. “Youngling’s fiction.”

“So, Almordae was your daughter?” Her question was asked gently. I couldn’t help but notice she used the past tense. She didn’t really believe this was Almordae — my Almordae. How could she? How could I?

I exhaled heavily. I should be able to answer a simple question about her. I swallowed down a moan or a growl, I didn’t know which, and said in one breath, “Yes. My daughter. She is—was—a Hielsrane, a future commander. She would have been one of the finest fleet captains the Drakon have ever seen.”

“I see,” she said quietly. “Moddoc...I should have mentioned that I killed one of your Drakon after you confided in me. I didn’t think about it then. I knew he wasn’t a Hielsrane. You said he was a prisoner.”

“Yes, a traitor.” Like me. I blew out a long breath. “The commander has agreed to your plan. He wants us to report as soon as we have finalized the logistics with your allies.

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