Night Dragon An Epic Fantasy Adventure - D.K. Holmberg Page 0,98

dragon bones, I formed an egg.”

Sarah was shaking her head. “That’s not how dragon eggs work, Jason.”

Jason held her gaze. There was still darkness in her eyes. A hollowness. He doubted that anything he would be able to do or say would remove that from her.

She’d lost her parents. And he’d not been there for her.

Everything he did even now was for the dragons.

He really was a misfit.

“I know it’s not how it is supposed to work, but given everything that we’ve seen with the other misfits, it makes sense.” He glanced over at Janeya. “Lorren believed the dragons never really died. He believed they cycled and their power came back, resurrected somehow. It fits with that.”

Sarah stared at the dragons. “They’re all female.”

“They are,” Jason said. “I think this is how we are going to beat Lorach.”

They were powerful—more so than dragons that Lorach had experienced before. They had a connection to different powers—much like the night dragon. As Henry had described them, they were something like super dragons.

More than that, they were willing to fight.

“What now?” Henry asked.

Jason stared at the dragons, then he looked overhead, feeling their energy. “After we deal with the other eggs, it’s time for us to take the fight to Lorach. Now it’s time for us to reclaim her throne.” He looked at Janeya.

She looked back at him, uncertain.

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Jason pulled Janeya aside. “I know you don’t know whether you can believe it or not, but that has to be the reason Lorren wanted to work with you.”

“Why wouldn’t he have said anything to me?”

Jason shook his head. “I don’t really know.” Had Lorren shared with them what he had been after, the reason that he had done what he had, Jason had to believe that there would have been something they could have done. Maybe he wouldn’t have been so aggressive and they could have worked together.

Only, that wasn’t quite true.

He had seen the way Lorren had been willing to attack the other dragons. He had seen how Lorren gave little thought to the Dragon Souls, along with the dragons.

But now I know they can be resurrected.

It changed things for him. For the dragons.

All of the dragons.

“I don’t know why Lorren had taken you. Maybe he thought to protect you. Maybe he thought to use you. Either way, now you get to choose. It’s the same as anyone else.”

Jason wouldn’t have changed anything. He would’ve done the same as he had done, and he would have tried to ensure that anything Lorren did to the dragons would be stopped.

“What if you’re wrong?” she asked.

“If I’m wrong, then I’m wrong,” Jason said. “It doesn’t change what needs to happen. All it changes is who you might be. Regardless of whether or not I am right or wrong, I could use your help with this.”

“I’m willing to help. I’m willing to do what I can to help the dragons. I’ve told you I will, but I’m not what you think I am.”

“If you are, all I ask is that you consider what you might be able to do.”

“And what might I be able to do?”

“I don’t know,” Jason said, grinning at her. “I don’t have those answers. We can find them together.”

He looked at the dragons all around them. They had the dozen female dragons, they had the other misfits, all the dragons so far proving they could not be influenced with whatever Jessica attempted.

“I will do whatever I can to help,” she said.

That was all he could ask.

He focused on the energy of the ice dragon, adding to that what he could of the iron dragon, mixing that of the storm dragon, and finally bringing in the forest dragon. Distantly, Jason felt the earth dragon, though he recognized how the earth dragons responded not only to him but also to Janeya.

With his connection to these other dragons, along with his connection to the power in the distance, he didn’t know that he needed to borrow that of the earth dragon. Even if he did, he could borrow power through his connection to Janeya.

“I am taking the fight to Lorach,” he said, looking at everyone all around him.

There were faces around him that he recognized, along with faces he did not. He could feel the way they were connected, which surprised him. Jason had never known that before. More than he had expected had some connection to the dragons.

Somehow, he was aware of it.

“I’m going to free the remaining dragons. I’m going to stop Jessica.