We Continue

Начало книги

Something was wrong.

Jacq could tell. It was a thrum in the rock. Even human as he was, even though he didn’t understand dragon speech, he knew.

Auntie grunted with effort as she backed into their chamber. The enormous stacks of wood under each of her forearms shouldn’t have even slowed her down, but her scales were dull with exhaustion.

Jacq stumbled out of his fabric nest. “What’s going on?”

“What’s that? What’s that?” Auntie replied in an old woman’s voice. She couldn’t really speak human, but she liked to chat like a parrot, repeating things she’d heard.

“Is everything okay?” Jacq said. “Why are you back in the hive? Did I lose track of time? Is it night?”

Auntie flapped her wings at him to be quiet. She began piling the wood by the wall.

“What are you doing?” Jacq pressed, but she pushed him away.

When she was done, Auntie turned to him. She fanned her ear webs, and the spikes along her spine and tail rose expectantly.

Читать дальше →