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Ch. 80 The Dragon's Deal
“Duck, Boss! Duck! Duck! Duck! Duck!”Starstorm’s tiny form, midnight blue with speckles, darted toward George and Milton. George’s eyes could make it out, looking like a tiny fly buzzing around the gigantic form of Therma Rubystone. Starstorm landed on the ground in front of them, pressing himself as close to the ground as he could, wings folded tightly against his back, his paws covering his eyes.Taking Starstorm’s position as a demonstration of what they should do, George and Milton hit the ground, flattening themselves as much as possible. When the dragon’s breath came, George was glad that he’d gone so far as to cover his eyes after Starstorm’s example. In addition to the searing heat which was so intense that George knew it would leave something akin to a sunburn down his back and the backs of his legs, George could see reddish light through both his closed eyelids and the flesh of his hands covering them.The dragon’s breath lasted so long that George thought that he and his t
Ch. 79 Therma Rubystone
For the next few moments, all was quiet. The rumbling had stopped. Everything had stopped. The seagulls stopped crying back in the direction of the beach. The jungle birds and insects around them went silent.George thought about the female dragon that laired in the crater of the Great Shield Dome. George was no expert on the size of dragon lairs, but he found it hard to imagine that the layer of that Dragon would extend this far away from the beach into the jungle. Whatever they had disturbed, it was right beneath them.Just when George thought that nothing might happen, that they might be able to cut their losses and quietly leave immediately without making things worse, a new sound began some distance away deeper in the jungle. It was the sound of several large things smashing their way through the foliage. He distinctly heard the snapping of tree branches and louder cracks that might be the snapping of actual tree trunks. “The Geology Chair is never going to forgive me, but I thi
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 u
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
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