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"I don't know. I'm more concerned about these 'dark days' the angel mentioned to both of you." She leaned an arm on the railing and turned toward the elf. "It sounds ominous."Alana put her hand over her womb. "At least she'll be okay."Rachel smiled. "You're going to be a wonderful mother."The wood elf beamed. "Thank you."They were silent for a few moments before Rachel spoke again. "Any idea how Ethan plans to fight Havorleth?""No, but he did come up with a way to improve the grenades so we won't have to worry about a repeat of your wound.""That was the grenade?" Rachel's jaw dropped. "From that far away?"Alana nodded, then explained the shrapnel and Ethan's solution for it. "The only real question is how to hollow out some wood so there's room for the gunpowder.""That's easy, I'll burn it out."Alana raised her eyebrow."Seriously, it was one of the few practical exercise the court mage taught me before my father ordered him to stop. It's a great way to learn control for your
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Kendra did her third triple check of all her gear and then checked one more time just to be sure. She knew ten times was excessive, but she wasn't leaving anything to chance. Not after what happened the last time she crossed this dragon.The previous night, she'd dropped her tiny airship into a gap in the trees where a wide river flowed. She adjusted the trim so she was only a few feet above the water, then lowered her caterpillar.The caterpillar was an enchanted leather strip about five feet long and two feet tall with floats on it. When it landed in the water, it caught the current while the floats kept it from sinking. It was attached to her airship with a rope, and it pulled her along with the current. That allowed her to creep silently toward the dragon's airship below the tree line where she wouldn't be spotted. She was only a few hundred yards away by midnight when she'd pulled out the caterpillar and dropped the anchor.It was a perfect position to strike at dawn.She'd woken
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Then he realized where she was standing."Alana." He breathed, as concern for his wife subsumed all other concerns.Kendra pulled out another arrow and Ethan dived for cover. It wasn't much, but there was a small boulder about two feet in diameter a couple yards away from the entrance of the cave. Serif and Raklan had taken cover behind another nearby rock, so they were protected.*Alana, are you okay?* He thought to her.No response.*Alana!*Still no response."That bitch!" Rachel fumed as she hit the dirt beside him with fire in her eyes. "If she hurt Alana, I'll roast her alive." A fire blazed behind the mage's eye, leaving him in no doubt that the redhead meant the threat quite literally."Get in line." Ethan growled in agreement.A subtle shaking of the earth brought Ethan's attention back to the situation at present. Havorleth was clearly coming to see what was going on and they were completely pinned down.He did the math.If he was going to help Alana, he needed to get out fr
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Something about the way it spoke perhaps. Something about its aggressive, commanding voice, or its posture maybe. Perhaps something about the urgency in its voice; the desperation of moments ago. Maybe the concern on its face when it looked at the wood elf.She didn't know the reason.In one smooth motion, Kendra the Dragon Huntress obeyed a dragon by turning, drawing her Dragon Slayer Bow back, and releasing her last Dragon Slayer Arrow at the larger dragon.Havorleth roared in pain.The arrow had missed its body but embedded itself in its wing. With a growl, the smaller dragon turned and leapt into the air, calling its hammer to its hand as it did so.Kendra stared in disbelief.Not only that the smaller dragon hadn't attacked her, but also that she had shot the larger one. Nothing explained it. Nothing whatsoever. She had never taken orders from a dragon before, though many of them had tried to command her.Why?Slowly, she shook herself out of her reverie and began to plan. She ne
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"Hey Havorleth."The other dragon whipped around on all fours and Ethan pointed to his feet. Havorleth looked down and saw the grenade sitting between his forelegs. His eyes went wide.BOOM!The dragon roared in pain. He stood up on his hind legs and looked at his arms, shock and disbelief written all over his face. Thanks to his enchanted scales, his arms hadn't been blown off, but they were a bit of a mess. The shrapnel had pierced the scales in several places and his arms were covered in blood.He was still swinging his tail back and forth to discourage those behind him from attacking. He started to spread his wings, then winced in pain as the arrow still embedded in one of them was jarred. The larger dragon turned so he had Ethan on the one side and the others on another. He then began to slowly back away using only his hind legs."You're done Havorleth." Ethan said. "Give up.""I would never shame myself by surrendering to filthy human cattle." He spat, then grimaced at the pain
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"Alana." A voice said as she felt a gently shaking*Alana.* The voice repeated inside her head, gently nudging her mind.She groaned. Her head felt like someone had used it for a drum."Are you okay?" He asked."Not so loud." She moaned as she tried to open her eyes. The light of the early morning sun viciously attacked her retinas and she slammed her eyelids shut. She clutched her stomach. It felt like a whole bowl of worms were rooting around in there."Are you okay?" He whispered."I think so." She said, but it turned out that opening her mouth again was a bad idea. She had just enough time to turn before she emptied her breakfast all over the ground. Thankfully, someone - probably Ethan - grabbed her hair and held it out of the way before she did so."Can you heal yourself?" He asked.She started shivering as she tried to focus her mana. It took some time, but she was finally able to start purging her body of whatever had knocked her out. It didn't work very well or quickly. It se
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Falling in love & flying from fearKendra woke from her impromptu nap in her tiny airship feeling groggy. Her entire body ached and was sore like she'd done a full body workout. She stayed under the blanket, not wanting to face the real world just yet.It didn't make sense.That blasted dragon didn't make a lick of sense.The fact that shehadn't killed him didn't make any sense either. She'd had him dead to rights; close enough that she wouldn't miss and he couldn't have dodged, but far enough that he couldn't have charged her before she'd loosed the arrow.She had him.Why had she let him go?Why?Eventually she stopped letting her brain run in circles, pulled the blanket off and sat up. It was mid-morning and the sun was shining down. Its rays were casting intricate patterns on the ground below through the clouds and leaves. The river beneath her airship filled the air with the relaxing sound of running water. The birds were singing and small animals were sneaking up to the river to
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Something wasn't right about this. She'd heard that men with multiple wives could encounter problems with them getting along, and this seemed like a built-in solution. However, that didn't make it agood solution. It raised all kinds of red flags for her. If she didn't know Ethan the way she did, she would've been very worried for his wives."Wow; you'll have three wives by the day's end." Alana mused."Scary thought." He agreed.Alana gave him a seductive look. Moments later he got a look of pure shock on his face. His head whipped around to look at the wood elf so fast that Rachel was surprised he didn't strain something."What happened to the innocent wood elf I married?" He wondered aloud."What did she-" Rachel began, but then stopped and shook her head. "No, never mind; I don't want to know."Alana looked at Rachel and opened her mouth, but then turned beet red and closed it again."Speak your mind Rachel." Ethan said. "I can tell there's something brewing in that brilliant brain
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