The Last Dragon_Book Three by LeRoy Clary

Author:LeRoy Clary [Clary, LeRoy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-11T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Damon

I looked at the soldier holding a sword similar to mine, standing a few steps from me, his posture limp. His eyes flicked to his sword and back to me. The battle continued all around us. His sword was held slackly at his side, as was mine. I saw the familiar curve of his blade, the wavy reflections of metals folded by master bladesmiths, and the simple, functional hilt.

He held the twin to my blade.

I glanced at mine and still felt the stinging vibration as if a tuning fork had been struck. A movement to one side drew my attention. Only two Vin attackers remained on their feet, and as I turned to look, one of Slacker’s men finished one of them with a slash of his heavy sword.

Another of Slacker’s men charged my attacker, his sword waving wildly around his head. My attacker kept his attention on me and didn’t attempt to defend himself.

“No!” I shouted as I leaped forward. The ringing in my ears and the feel of the sword in my hands intensified as the distance closed. I managed to hold off Slacker’s man. “He’s mine,” I snapped.

Kendra rushed to my side.

*Kill him.* Anna told me in my mind.

“Truce?” I requested from the soldier.

He looked at the hand holding the twin of my sword and back at his. With a flip of his wrist, he inserted his sword back into the scabbard and waited. He said, “Truce.”

I called out, “This prisoner is mine. No harm is to come to him.”

Now there were many confused looks aimed at me. But Flier pointed behind us and said, “Here they come.”

Less than twenty of them burst from the shade under the trees and ran in our direction, but they ran no faster than we had through the soft sand, and they had a long way to go to reach us, or even to reach the range of an arrow. Slacker was debating to run or fight. If we fought in the open, outnumbered, some of ours were sure to be wounded or worse. Two already had minor cuts from the fight we’d just won.

Nobody paid any more attention to my prisoner or me.

Kendra called to Slacker, “We retreat. I’ll protect our backs.”

Now it was Slacker’s turn to be confused. There had been a lot of that in the last few moments, but behind Slacker, a black dot appeared in the sky, and I knew what it was. Kendra’s dragon was about to arrive to protect us as it had done twice already.

I said to the man who’d given me his truce, “I have no idea what happened with our swords. Do you?”

“Did your ears ring with a whine?”

“Hold your blade closer to mine,” I pointed the tip of mine at him.

He didn’t react with fear at the tip of my blade. He drew his blade, and the keening increased in pitch and volume as the blades moved closer. He raised his blade closer to mine, and it became intolerable. Slacker’s men and my friends watched us, but obviously heard or felt nothing.

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