Night Dragon An Epic Fantasy Adventure - D.K. Holmberg Page 0,37
without angering her. He had been there and been a part of Lorren’s death. “I didn’t kill him.”
“Someone did. The dragons tell me he died fighting.”
“The dragons killed him,” Jason said.
She shook her head. Her dark hair swirled from side to side as she did. “Dragons wouldn’t have killed him. Lorren fought on behalf of the dragons.”
“Lorren attacked the dragons. If he would have fought on behalf of the dragons, he might have been able to live, but unfortunately…”
She started to shift again, the power of the illusion that she drew through the mist dragons enormous. Jason maintained his own connection, holding onto the power within him, and turned the nature of her illusion against her.
Her illusion failed.
“That isn’t going to work against me again,” Jason said.
“Why are you here?”
“Your earth dragon brought me here after showing me other places Lorren had been,” he said.
And because it had brought him here, Jason had to wonder if there was something to this place. The earth dragon would have had a reason to have brought Jason here. There must’ve been some reason, something the earth dragon would’ve thought they would have been able to accomplish, and whether or not it had something to do with something Jason might be able to do on behalf of the dragons or whether it was simply to try to get vengeance for what had happened to Lorren, he didn’t know.
“The dragon would not have brought you here.”
“Unfortunately, the dragon did.”
“How were you able to travel here?”
Jason called upon the cold, the energy of the ice dragon, and he set it swirling around him. By holding onto that, letting it fill him with power, it swirled outward, flowing out and around him. It built powerfully. Ice began to glisten along the surface of his skin.
Strangely, it didn’t seem as if all of that power came from the ice dragon. For the first time, it seemed almost as if some of that energy came from him. As he held onto that energy, he sensed something that struck him as similar to the energy that was in the north, the power that connected him to the mountains, that was filling him, and similar to a sense of energy that drew him closer to the power that existed out in the world.
Am I somehow drawing upon that?
Jason had no idea whether or not what he drew upon was something that he needed to use or better understand, or whether it was something more. He focused on that power and tried to call it, letting it flow from him, through the ice dragon, and even from the north.
The girl borrowed energy from the other dragons and sent it sweeping against Jason. He ignored the pressure against him, focusing only on the power within him. As he did, he could feel some aspect of the energy she held onto, the way she called upon that power, squeezing it out from her. By holding onto that energy within him, he recognized there was something more to the way that she held onto her power.
“You don’t need to keep attacking,” Jason said.
There had to be some reason the earth dragon had brought him here.
Jason turned toward the earth dragon. The dragon queen tried to hold onto power, using it in a way that would prevent him from seeing anything, though he could feel the power that was there, the energy around him, and he could feel the connection she tried to use to create another illusion that would make it difficult for him to make anything out. By studying that energy, that power that was out there, he focused, feeling for the power.
That energy persisted, the source of it flowing everywhere, and he held onto that connection. He turned toward the earth dragon and summoned that power, letting it flow to him.
“Why did you bring me here?” he asked the earth dragon.
The ground rumbled through the ground once again.
Jason ignored the rumbling. It almost sounded like some sort of a threat, though the kind of threat the dragon tried to use was such that he attempted to dissuade Jason from causing problems with the dragon queen, though that wasn’t at all anything that Jason was interested in doing. He wanted to know more about why the earth dragon had brought him here.
He looked over at the earth dragon again, focusing on the power within him, feeling that energy flowing from deep within the ground, through the connection he shared with the other dragons.