Chapter 34
VALANCE
It took until the next dawn to arrive back at the giant haven within the mountains. Aeveen landed carefully, avoiding the few remaining humans left to attend things in the absence of everyone else.
I ignored the genuflections, rolling my shoulders to prepare for my next step.
Silver magic bloomed in my hands, cascading through the air to pool at my feet. It spread like a thick ooze, slowly seeping into the ground.
“Find me another,” I said.
The magic got to work.
Buried deep, a graveyard of ancient dragons. None as big as Aeveen, all worthy of resurrection. But only one could be called back for the time being. My magic had to stay in fighting shape to see this through.
Which one. Which one.
You…
A male dragon slithered out of the earth. Different to Aeveen, more serpent-like with a coiled body of blue and silver scales, eight small wings on either side of its form to carry him into the air.
Still a fire-breather, still just as deadly.
I’ll call you Cyrus.
The dragons met in the air, Cyrus’s body slithering around Aeveen, the two of them roaring, connecting. Friends.
I climbed back onto Aeveen once their bonding was complete, grateful to be able to sit. The resurrection didn’t deplete me completely, but the break between here and Spring would serve me well.
And so, we flew farther south, my dragons and I, to obliterate the heart of the enemy.