Bad idea. Very bad. For the kiss was rather more involved than a mere social peck. He began to reciprocate automatically, then jerked back. Windroc gizzards! “Thank you very much,” she murmured. Kal could only think of Tazithiel’s fiery breath sizzl...
Impervious. The cage had defeated Grandion’s every artifice during his three years of captivity. Designed by Dragons for the containment of Dragons, the structure was not only built from the strongest substance known to the Dragonkind–Dragon bones–but further reinforced with cunning spells of an ...
“Wait here. Master Kassik is an extremely busy man.” Pip knew how to wait. She had waited seven years to escape, only to be kidnapped by a Dragon. But now, she found herself hopping from one foot to the other. Alathion’s desk, front and centre in his plush office, was the ...
Princess Annakiya shoved open a large iron-banded door and ushered Shioni within. She winced as Annakiya unwittingly patted her sore shoulder. The room was not large, but it was crammed to the ceiling with rack upon rack of scrolls. More piles of scrolls had been tossed ha...
A pox on the notion! Why, I buy it by the potion, And toss it into the ocean. Is love not born inside a lie, a pretty pastime till we die? Mark it mine? Fie! Then why do I pine, stare into my wine, refuse to dine? ...
GLORY! WINDSONG wuthering over Dragon scales! Pip raced for the freedom of the open skies, the boundless night that lay but the laughter of a Dragon’s heart from her grasp. She yearned to shuck burdens that had indeed lain like boulders upon her life. Never had she felt lighter. Freer. Happier. &...
Shioni shucked her tunic and waded into the river. The cool water was wonderful on her hot, throbbing ankle. A golden line of sunshine was slowly sliding down the escarpment, turning it into a fairyland of dagger-like spires of rock, dark, yawning cave entrances like a ragged line of hungry mouth...
The girl strummed the harp with tantalising skill. All the while, the Nameless Man’s smouldering yellow eyes measured her with a barely-veiled might not unlike what she had felt in the Ancient Dragon. Lia considered the childlike voice which wielded verbal blades, the simplicity of a boy’s words ...
Windrocs were a constant danger, but the Shadow and Azure Dragons flew high enough that the birds gave up following them. To their right hand or paw, a sprawling landscape of rocky columns loomed beneath a tablecloth of unbroken grey cloud, as though a table of a million legs stood above the Clou...
“Aargh!” “Silence!” snapped Getu. “What’s the matter with you?” “I had a nightmare. Hyenas… the witch…” Shioni felt as though she had been wrestling a dozen giants all night. To be accosted by the General first thing? She rub...
Indomalion’s corona set the southern horizon ablaze in orange flames–sun-flares, Kevin wondered? Great tendrils of impossibly distant fire, raging above the gloaming gathering across the land, stroking the faraway horizon so distinctly that he imagined he must soon see an inferno racing through t...
Her ears burned as Arandal, Chief of the Nectar Guild, praised her imagination from the fiery core of Fiuriel to the very edge of the known tunnels. “Fiuriel’s Breath!” he declared at last. “Drink, my precious petals. Drink to this fine Fiuri, who graces us with her presence. May she soon discove...