Wild Sky by Zaya Feli

Author:Zaya Feli [Feli, Zaya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-23T16:00:00+00:00

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As soon as he got back to the tower, Tauran went about packing for the journey.

He found the largest bag he could comfortably carry, along with a pair of saddlebags and a bedroll. Luckily, the Sunrise Tower had most of what they would need, since guards and soldiers were often sent on week-long excursions out of the city. Tauran filled his bag with dried lake mushrooms and silverhorn jerky rich in protein. They weren’t likely to find much game in the Terror Marshes. He packed knives, rope, medical equipment, spare clothes, flint, and a few utensils from the in-tower kitchen, then spun in a circle by the sink with a hand tangled in his hair because he realized with complete dread that he’d never had to survive in the wilderness before and had no clue what else he would need to bring.

Was he even making the right choice?

Fuck. If he hadn’t been in over his head before, he certainly was, now.

But he wouldn’t be alone. He’d have Kalai, Arrow and Leyra.

“Time to dig up some of that bravery you boast so much about, Tauran,” he murmured, carrying the bags up to the eighth floor.

Leyra greeted him with a rumbling roar when he reached the top of the stairs and bounded toward him. She parted her jaws and snapped them in front of his face with a hollow thump, spun in a circle and leaped away. “At least someone’s in a good mood,” Tauran said, placing the bags by the stairs. She play-bowed and hissed and the reason for her excitement became obvious. She had somehow wiggled both wings halfway free of the straps. They sat crooked, the left one dangling and dragging along the floor.

Tauran huffed and shook his head. “So much for that,” he said, going over to her.

She bounced in a tight circle around him, making the floors creak. Tauran took care to keep his feet out of her path. At nearly the size of a fully grown horse, he was sure a stomp of her four-inch front claws would nail his foot to the floorboards.

“Whoa, now,” Tauran said, grabbing her by the left wing strap as she made to bounce another round. She turned her head and snarled at him, snapping in the air beside his arm. She looked truly terrifying, but Tauran had spent enough time around dragons, and especially around titans, to know she wasn’t serious. “You and I are getting out of here,” he whispered to her. His quiet tone made her still, and she turned toward him, cocking her head attentively. “You’re going to see Kalai again. And he’s bringing a friend, too. Now, he’s quite a bit older than you, so I can’t promise he’ll want to play, but you’ll like him, I’m sure. You met him once, when you were still in the egg.”

Leyra cocked her head in the other direction, then slipped her large pink tongue from between her teeth and slapped it against Tauran’s outstretched hand.

“I don’t

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