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Ch. 78 Sonar Scanning
“Starstorm, how do bigger dragon species feel about p’ckit dragons? Could you go say hello to the bronze-colored male dragon when it comes up on the beach sometime?” “Well, I could, but it might not be a good time, since he would be there to serenade a mate. That’s, ya know, kinda private, kinda personal. Not exactly the right time to say, ‘Why hello, neighbor!’” “I see. That makes sense. I was hoping that you could maybe liaison for me. Nereia said that I should look for the island where the sea sings to the fire. I’m sure those two dragons are what she meant. I’m totally sure of it.” “Well,” offered Milton, “you have found the island, like the letter said. That’s all the letter said. It just said ‘find the island’. It didn’t say anything about talking to the dragons. Maybe they’re a landmark, so to speak, so that you identify the right island to be on, but that’s all. Maybe she didn’t intend for you to actually interact with them.” Milton huffed and puffed as the two humans, ac
Ch. 77 Straight Talk with Milton
After the enormous, full-sized dragon had retreated back into the sea, the two humans and the tiny p’ckit dragon waited behind the boulder in stunned, or maybe reverent, silence for several long moments.“That was a mating song,” Starstorm said finally.“Yeah, buddy, I think we figured that out,” George said. “That was the male that we saw?”“Yeah, the female must lair in the shield mound.”“Was the male a sea dragon?”“No. Some of the bronze-colored ones like water a lot, even going so far as to have underwater lairs, but they stay near land. Real sea dragons live way out in the ocean, far away from land.”Milton finally overcame his own stunned silence. “I’ve never seen a real dragon before.”“Hey!” Starstorm protested.Milton smiled, unable to resist Starstorm’s charm. “Present company excepted, Starstorm.”“Thank you,” the diminutive, speckled dragon said with much pomp, apparently appeased.“If they like the water so much,” George reasoned, then what kind of dragon is the female
Ch. 76 Dragonsong Duet
For the first leg of their journey to the northeast shore of the island, the volcanic shore, George wondered if he should have brought a machete. There were trails through the jungle to that side of the island, but they were not often used and were not well-kept. Fortunately, the jungle thinned out and the ground became more rocky as they continued north. The lava from the volcanoes would, with time and erosion, break down into soil excellent for plant life, but that erosion process took a long time, and in the meantime, the rocks were….just rocks. So, the jungle thinned out enough eventually that George got past the part where he really could have used a machete.As he picked his way across the rocks on the northeast shore, he and Starstorm listened to the wind comb through the sulfur vents like a flute, just as the scientists in Beacon City had said the night before. Gereoge thought about what he’d learned back at Wonderdome Science Academy. Not all volcanoes were ticking time bomb
Ch. 75 Where the Sea Sings to the Fire
The morning of George’s sixteenth birthday arrived. He was bathing in a pool soon after sunrise when a familiar voice called to him from the bushes on shore. “Hey, kid!” “Yörg!” The Staff of Xee carefully looked around, right and left, before levitating itself, slowly drifting out of the concealing jungle undergrowth and hovering over the water near George. Suddenly, the staff disappeared. “Yörg! You just got here! What’s the deal?” “I’d tell ya to keep your britches on, but you’re not wearing any.” Yörg’s voice came from the same space he’d disappeared from. “I turned invisible because you don’t need to be seen with me. In case you hadn’t figured it out, this place is hostile to magic-users.” “Yeah. It kind of is. A lot of bitterness toward the Society here.” “Well with me being invisible, if you keep your voice down, it’ll just seem like you talk to yourself when you bathe. A lot of folks do that. You’re going to stay around here awhile, aren’t ya? These folks are your peopl
Ch. 74 Lunch with Cynthia
Maverick did indeed have the power left to make it to Beacon City, just barely. The scientist technicians there were able to improvise something that would act as an adapter between their power systems and Maverick’s, so that he could begin to charge up again. Charging all the way up from zero percent would take about eight hours, giving George just that long to figure out how he and Stingray were going to function on Science Island while maintaining the cover stories they’d concocted for themselves. If they wanted to leave, George could probably call Yörg who would brag about being able to take them ‘anywhere in the multiverse’. But George didn’t want that to be necessary. Nereia had had the AI sub bring them here for a reason. It couldn’t be a coincidence that this was an anti-Society science colony. He remembered what the Oracle had said in her farewell letter about “finding a family”. Were these people that family? “They will not look like a family. They will not sound like on
Ch. 73 What Do You Do With a Powered-Down Warbot Early in the Morning?
Milton stepped forward. “I’m very sorry to interrupt, Chemistry Chair, but there is a warbot on Shark Man Beach in what appears to be a powered down state. I have two men guarding it and I have just confirmed with them over comlink that it has not reactivated or moved.” George realized he would have to learn the origins of the science colonists’ animosity for elves some other time. Maverick would be a momentous topic. “A warbot!” The Biology Chair exclaimed. “Are you mad? You have us here fraternizing with elves and elf-lovers while a warbot occupies our shores?” George decided to step in again to exert some influence on the direction things were going. He didn’t like the way the Biology Chair saw things. It reminded George too much of the pomposity of many of the mages in the Society. “The golem that this man Milton refers to as a robot, was cargo aboard my ship before it went down. Our captain wanted to take it to Siren Island, believing it would be immune to siren charms.” Geo
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