“Thank you, my dearest friend. I don’t think I say that enough.”
You certainly don’t.
Around us, a hubbub of voices filled the air. I looked over to their source to see Hubric was opening the cages and letting all the Lightbringers out. He walked with a limp, still carrying his sword, but he winked at me when he saw me looking at him. A battered, muddy Haskell walked beside him.
It would take more than a little fire to kill that old oak tree.
Raolcan lay his head on the ground – his eyes closing.
I just need a minute.
Beside him, Savette lay down, cuddled against his side, her own eyes closing. Raolcan wouldn’t be alone in his sleep. Was he really going to be okay? It wasn’t like him to drift off on a battlefield that was still being subdued, even if he was injured.
It’s self-defence.
Against what? My heart leapt in worry. Was there another attack coming?
An attack on my sense of decency. It’s already almost upon us.
What was he talking about?
Wet footfalls smacked across the ground, the sound of rain spattering in the divots they made filling my ears. I turned, straining to see in the heavy downpour, and before I had a chance to catch my breath, Leng caught me up in his strong arms, almost lifting me up in the air before drawing me close in a firm embrace.
“You’re alive,” he murmured into my hair. “I was so certain ... so worried. When I heard about Leedris City and the Ifrits there-”
“When I heard about Saldrin-” I interrupted.
“I was certain you were lost to me.”
“I feared the worst, too.”
His kiss was hot in the cool rain, and the sense of complete safety that it brought with it made my last defense crumble. I wrapped my arms around him, pulling him in tighter.
“I’m so glad I found you, Amel. But, we have to stop meeting each other this way.”
“By saving each other’s lives?”
He kissed me again.
“Finding each other in terrible danger?” My voice muffled at the end when he cut off my words with a kiss.
When I could speak again I carried on, “Swooping in to save the day?”
“Amel?”
“Yes?”
“This is the part where you stop talking and kiss me.”
And that is why it’s better to have my eyes closed.
He kept them closed for a long time. Long past the time that the prisoners were free. Long past the time that the wild dragons finished subduing our foes. Long past the much later time that Leng and I finally stopped whispering to each other and turned back to the business at hand. He’d earned every second of his rest.
You said it, spider.
Read the rest of Amel’s story in “Dragon School: Mark of Loyalty.”
Behind the Scenes:
USA Today bestselling author, Sarah K. L. Wilson, hails from the rocky Canadian Shield in Northern Ontario where she lives with her husband and two small boys. Her interests include the outdoors, history, and philosophy. Her books are always about fantastical adventures in other worlds.
Sarah would like to thank Harold Trammel, Eugenia Kollia, and Sarah Brown for their incredible work in beta reading and proofreading this book. Without their big hearts and passion for stories, this book would not be the same.
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Dragon School Reading Order:
Dragon School: First Flight
Dragon School: Initiate
Dragon School: The Dark Prince
Dragon School: The Ruby Isles
Dragon School: Sworn
Dragon School: Dusk Covenant
Dragon School: First Message
Dragon School: Warring Promises
Dragon School: Prince of Dragons
Dragon School: Dark Night
Dragon School: Bright Hopes
Dragon School: Mark of Loyalty
Dragon School: Dire Quest
Find them all on their Amazon series page.
Why Novellas?
I love watching television series. I don’t really like movies, because they’re simply too short of a story arc for me. I prefer long, drawn out stories in smaller, bite-sized episodes. Dragon School is my book version of the television dramas that I love. I’m writing the type of series I want to read – long and rich but with short episodes I can read in a single evening. I hope that you’ll enjoy this format as much as I do. I am planning approximately twenty episodes for the first season. The first season will be a complete, self-contained story. There is a second season planned for 2019 that will continue in the same world and timeline with a new main character and dragon. Stay tuned!
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