Jeffrey A. Carver Parrone The Dragons

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ready for me! Be ready to fly! Above all, believe! The
Enemy can still be broken!
Jael@hat can I do?
Her voice, answering, was drowned out by a much louder cry echoing from the
emptiness around him. It was a cry of alarm filtering in from the outer
world-a scream of urgency, calling him back. With a gasped, I'll be ready!
Call for me! he blinked backward through FullSky's window and emerged from
the underrealm.
Around him was chaos: dragon wings beating, flames thundering, and the
chilling breath of drahls in the air. Windrush looked around in confusion.
He was under attack-still perched on a pinnacle of rock!
Half a dozen dragons had come to his defense, but the air was filled with
enemy warriors. A cluster of drahls had just evaded his guardians and were
diving straight toward him.
With an explosion of energy, Windrush leaped from the pinnacle and dove under
the attacking drahls, forcing them to turn in a tight, fast bank. Windrush
doubled back and beat upward, gaining altitude. "SHE
LIVES!" he bellowed to the other dragons. "Jael HAS REACHED THE DREAM
MOUNTAIN! SHE LIVES TO FIGHT THE ENEMY!"
From the dragons rose a murmur of confusion. As a few of the dragons repeated
his cry, the encouragement spread in a slow ripple.
But the shout had cost Windrush energy that might have gone into speed-and now
t e r s were hard on his tail, moving fast. Two shot past him, ching their
chill fire; and though he managed to veer away from those two, he could not
evade two others who caught him from behind, one landing on his shoulders and
the other seizing his hindquarters. He roared out as their talons gripped
him. He knew in an instant that he was caught, and he could feel their claws
probing for entry. "Damn you!"
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he hissed, shaking violently@and through the pain, he bellowed out:
"FOLLOW Jael WHEN SHE CALLS! YOU MUST BELIEVE-!" and then his breath gasped
out as the drahls' talons found a nerve.
He heard a shattering battle cry, and a wave of heat hit him from above. He
nearly lost consciousness as dragon flame billowed over his head. But the two
drahls fell away, burning, and as he veered to freedom, he struggled to clear
his mind from the pain and heat, and he peered back up through the smoke to
see who had saved him. "SearSky-!"
he cried raggedly, seeing the black dragon emerge from a ring of fire.
Windrush tried to cry out his thanks, but he could scarcely breathe.
He realized with sudden horror that SearSky was battling for his own life now,
with a cluster of drahls fastened to his back. SearSky must have dived
straight through those drahls to save Windrush. Now he bellowed with pain,
his flame crackling uselessly, unable to reach the drahls.
"SearSky ... help SearSky! Needs ... help!" Windrush gasped, trying to wheel
and climb to the warrior's aid. But he could not move fast enough; he was
still afire with pain.
SearSky's coal-red eyes blazed through the flurry of wings and freezing fire,
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and he roared out, his voice razorsharp with agony, "Windrush, you cannot you
must-lead the others! Find-your friend
Jael@and-!"
Two other dragons had broken to SearSky's aid-but they were too late, all of
them. The light in SearSky's eyes flickered and went out, and the black
dragon fell from among the drahls, turning from obsidian to clear glass and
vanishing before he hit the rocks below. "SearSky!"
Windrush cried hoarsely, circling in disbelief "Windrush, talk to me!"
he heard, as another dragon sped to his side, silver eyes gleaming.
"Farsight! SearSky just saved-" "I saw! I could not come in time."
Farsight's eyes blazed with regret. "What did you say about Jael? We
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