The Uncommon Rider (The Exceptional S. Beaufont Book 1) by Sarah Noffke & Michael Anderle

Author:Sarah Noffke & Michael Anderle [Noffke, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2019-11-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty-Nine

Sophia clenched her eyes shut, trying to focus even though everything around her seemed to be trying to distract her.

What do you see? Lunis asked in her mind.

“Blackness,” she answered out loud and in her head.

What else? he barked, annoyance in his voice.

“A grass-covered meadow,” she began. “It’s sprinkled with cottages. There’s a billowing haystack next to you, and a slab of meat that you just caught. Oh, and nice job with the dozen villagers who are circled around you, worshipping.”

Lunis growled in her head so loud, it felt like it rumbled the ground under her feet. Making up things, however creative and flattering, won’t work on me, he answered.

Sophia sighed, opening her eyes. “This is useless. I can’t see what you see.”

She peered around, half-believing that Lunis was somewhere close, staring at her from a nearby hilltop. Her guess proved correct. He sprang off the nearest mountain and glided down to her.

“You have to really try if you want scrying to work between us,” he encouraged when he’d landed with a breathtaking grace, his wings sending wind across her face.

“I am trying,” she argued. She looked at the blue dragon, who was even larger than a few moments prior. She’d heard of growth spurts, but they did little to explain what happened to her dragon when no one was looking. One minute his body, not counting tail and neck, would be twenty feet long, then it would grow by a foot. He would soon be bigger than even Bell, the oldest and largest of all the dragons at the Gullington.

Lunis shook his head. “If you were trying, when we are in battle, you’d be able to see everything I saw. That’s crucial for our survival.”

“Fine,” Sophia spat. “Why don’t we try it in reverse? I’ll do it, and you tell me what I see.”

He coughed, smoke billowing from his nostrils. “I really think you need to master it before I attempt it. That way, we won’t confuse things.”

Sophia narrowed her eyes at her dragon. “Or are you nervous that you’ll struggle with it as much as me?”

"No. Maybe…no. Okay, yes, that’s totally it.” He gave her a look of guilt.

“We might have telepathy down,” Sophia complained, “but this scrying business is really difficult. It’s more than getting into your head. It’s sharing your senses.”

“Which is why you need to focus,” he encouraged. “It’s crucial that you’re able to scry through me in battle.”

She gave him an angry glare. “You know what else is important for battle?”

Lunis, who was solely a carnivore, began nipping at the grass underfoot. “Vigilance?”

“Nope,” Sophia stated.

“How about courage?” he posed casually.

“Yep, super important, but not what I’m really looking for when thinking of dragonriders,” she stated.

“How about perseverance?” Lunis questioned.

“Yeah, no,” Sophia said, tossing her head to the side.

“Oh, well, I don’t know then,” he stated. “I’m totally stumped.”

“It’s cute that you say both the words ‘totally’ and ‘stumped’ like a teenager from LA,” she mused.

“Cute. Yes, that’s a word all dragons like to be described using,” he said with a growl.

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