Author: ueoai

Chap. 212 Recognition For one long, agonized, shocked into silence moment, every man in the cavern froze. Then, from every throat burst a loud roar. Alph’s crossbow dropped from his nerveless hand. The cavern’s host scrambled for their weapons, shrieking curses. One man’s voice rose above the rest. “HOLD!!!” screamed the man on the floor.…

Chap. 211 The Voice K’ndar had carefully crept to his original position on the hill. The sun was now in his eyes. It was getting on in the day, something his stomach kept reminding him of. He glassed the spot where the sentry was. He could see only the man’s upper half. The man was…

Chap. 210 Recon Lord Dorn was sitting with his back to a tree, whittling a stick with far more force than was needed. He was seething. Two weyrleaders completely carried away with their disagreements and I’m sitting on my arse, waiting, he thought. There are times when dragonriders are a pain in the arse. Only…

Chap. 209 Tempers Rising He’d dug his binoculars out of his saddle bag and was now tucked into an uncomfortably small hollow at the foot of a tree. Behind him, Raventh was perched atop a volcanic outcrop on the other side of the hill. He’d made sure the dragon was below the skyline. Nothing shouted…

Chap. 208 Deception Can you make it so that the green fire lizards don’t see you? K’ndar asked Raventh. Siena was buckling the old man and woman onto her gold dragon, Mirth, as quickly as she could. I think, if I keep very quiet and don’t move, they’ll see Mirth and not me. Siskin is…

Chap. 207 Green spies They were winging their way across the southeastern quadrant of Lord Dorn’s hold. While it was not the size of Toric’s vast holding, still, Dorn’s lands went for a very long way. “K’ndar,” Siena called from across the gap between their two dragons, “Why did Mirth tell me you can’t drink…

Chap. 206 Philosophizing As they climbed for altitude prior to going between, K’ndar realized he’d never flown this close to a gold dragon. Accustomed to the whuhwhuhwhuh of Raventh’s beating wings as he searched for a thermal, K’ndar heard a deeper, baser note, almost a soft ‘boom’ from Mirth’s enormous wings. Even with a couple…

Chap. 205 Unusual partner “Hello, the weyr, K’ndar, are you home?” Glyena, his sister’s voice echoed in the interior tunnel. “Come on in, sis!” Entering his weyr, she passed him at his desk and made her way to Raventh’s couch. Siskin, perched atop the brown dragon, chirped a welcome. “Good day, Raventh, and you, Siskin,”…

Chap. 204 Ruminating You are keeping me awake with your thoughts. They are like rain in the wind, all over, everywhere falling, Raventh said, petulantly. Sorry. I can’t sleep, K’ndar said, sheepishly. I want to. You are making noises in my head. Even Siskin is unhappy. Go talk to the big human who works at…

Chap.203 The Offer “That rain cooled everything down nicely,” Fland said. He, Sandriss and K’ndar had ridden back to the burnt out wagon to retrieve the metal parts and the branding iron. “This axle-it’s well made. I don’t know if it can be used for a wagon again, but the metal, surely, can be melted…