Night Dragon An Epic Fantasy Adventure - D.K. Holmberg Page 0,7
light that washed along the hallways.
His boots thudded off the hard stone and he made an effort to mute the sound, using a hint of the forest dragon power with which to do so. It was unnecessary, though he didn’t like to announce his passing quite so loudly.
He reached the end of the hall and paused in front of one of the doorways, knocking briefly. For a moment, there was nothing. He knocked again, waiting, but again, there was nothing.
Jason continued to hesitate and pushed out with a hint of the sense of the ice and iron dragons, using that combination to create a burst of power that he pressed through the doorway.
Using power in that way, he could feel whether there was somebody in the room on the other side. It was empty.
Strange. He would’ve expected Sarah to be there at this time of day, but there was no sense of her. Turning and heading back down the hall, he paused at the branch point leading to the main part of the building.
Voices caught his attention and Jason headed in that direction, hurrying toward them. When he reached the wide double doors leading into what he had once considered a throne room, he found Sarah speaking quietly with several of the Dragon Guard.
Jason stood in the doorway, listening. He wasn’t concerned about eavesdropping, knowing she wouldn’t be concerned about his presence, but he was curious as to the nature of the conversation.
“They have to be somewhere,” Sarah said.
“I’m sorry, but we haven’t been able to find anything of them.”
Jason understood what they were talking about. And he understood just why Sarah would be so passionate as she spoke.
Her parents.
They had disappeared, and in the days since the night dragon had hatched, there had been an attempt to try to find them, but none had succeeded. They had to be somewhere, but as they continued looking, it seemed almost as if Olar and Cherise had completely disappeared.
“I’m not sure I can give you the answer you want, then,” Sarah said.
“You understand that with them gone—”
“They will return,” Sarah said.
The Dragon Guard tensed.
Jason looked over at the Dragon Guard, studying him.
He was probably ten years older than Jason, with dark, close-cropped hair, a wide chin, and a muscular body. He was dressed in dragonskin, much like most of the Dragon Guard, and a curved blade hung at his side.
He felt a sense of energy radiating off the Dragon Guard, the kind of power that Jason had come to attribute to them, though he wasn’t sure if there was something more to the Dragon Guard that he should be able to detect at this point.
Finally, the man leaned forward, bowing briefly before heading out of the room.
Sarah leaned down, resting her head on the table, shaking it slowly. Her blonde hair dangled in front of her face and her crystal blue eyes stared straight ahead. She was lovely, but looked as if she were irritated.
Jason cleared his throat and she looked up. She wiped tears from her eyes.
“No sign of them?” Jason asked, his gaze going back toward the spot the Dragon Guard had occupied.
“There’s been none. I don’t know why they would have disappeared. Or if Lorren did something to them.”
As much as it pained him to admit, that was the most likely answer. “Do you think they might have detected something they would have gone after?”
“My parents wouldn’t have abandoned the city like that,” she said.
Jason didn’t know her parents all that well, but wasn’t sure he would consider that abandoning anything. They had been confident in their desire and willingness to do anything that was necessary to protect Dragon Haven, and yet, in the time that Jason had been here, he hadn’t seen them leave the city once. The fact that they had done so, or had been abducted and taken from here, was startling.
“We have to find them,” she said. Her eyes looked as if they wanted to burrow into him, demanding him to help.
“There are others looking,” Jason said.
“I know there are others looking, but we have to find them.”
Jason had had this discussion with her before, and it hadn’t gone any better than this one was going. “What do you think that you and I might be able to do that’s more than the Dragon Guard can do?”
“What can you and I do? The better question is what can you do, Jason Dreshen? You’re the one who managed to break into Lorach, and you managed to