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23 - Lies

2020-10-20 17:28:17

Anzi said nothing after that, neither when she picked Violetta up from the ground, nor when she helped clean off her bloody face, nor even when they arrived back at the palace afterward. Whatever the reason for Violetta's willing subjection to such mistreatment, it was up to her to confess it on her own. She was an adult. They were both adults. And they were neither friends nor each other's confidants, so there was a certain way this had to go. Just the one.

"I lied to you," V

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Called by the Dragon 49 - Unsafe

Anzi lasted all of three more hours before her spite-fired endurance ran out. Searching for dangerous serpents in the Adaraat's sands with not a hint of a scale or tail around was fast becoming torturous. She wanted to go back. Netra would definitely be awake now, and she would getting hungry. Anzi had already guessed that Bisset wouldn't lift a finger to feed her and had asked the guard on duty to tend to her instead, but she dreaded to think what the colonel might do if the hatchling irritated him with her insistent screeching in the meantime....She should go back, but she hadn't decided whether to report the encounter with the old witch crone in her head along with the information that something had triggered the migration and swarms yet. Should she? But if she did, that would be one more reason for Bisset and everyone else to keep an even closer eye on her. She didn't want to attract more attention. She needed to blend in.Yet if she didn't report the incident, sh

Called by the Dragon 48 - Green

Before departing, Anzi had changed into lightweight desert garb in anticipation of boiling heat, but the sunlight that streamed down over her was more comforting than hot. It had been a long time since she had last trekked this far into the desert, although this wasn't anywhere near the true deep sands at all. They'd gone no more than twenty kilometers, roughly, and the stallion was still trotting comfortably over the dunes with no signs of tiring. Large, fanned ears flicked this way and that, and over Anzi's head, the creature's long, tufted tail did the same, providing both of them shade.Captain Gorien had been telling the truth: this stallion was a remarkable specimen. Well-trained, intelligent, strong, and possessing even greater stamina than its kind typically had. Anzi was sure they could go another twenty kilometers before they had to stop for a rest, and that only because of her own limitations, not the sand horse's.Then again, her bruises felt far less uncom

Called by the Dragon 47 - Alone

Surprisingly, Netra remained soundly asleep as Anzi carried her in her arms all the way down to the palace courtyard. The hatchling was an enthusiastic sleeper, but not a heavy one, and she typically screeched at disturbances that dared wake her from her post-gorge slumber. Not today, however, and that was a turn of good fortune: Anzi dreaded to think what might happen if the colonel realized that Netra could speak. It was better this way.The man was waiting for her on top of his dragon already when she arrived. As she crossed the remaining distance over the grass, the enormous creature extended her wing and blanketed the ground with a rumbling, leathery sound. The clinking of heavy scales made Anzi's hair stand on end, and although she never slowed her stride, her gaze fell away from the colonel's stern face to land on his dragon's instead.What a truly massive leviathan. Her twelve meter body lay flat on the grass, but the relaxed stance did nothing to make the drag

Called by the Dragon 46 - Insubordinate

She had talked.When was anyone going to tell Anzi that not only did dragons speak, but they could also barge into someone's mind to do so? She had always thought there was a special bond between a dragon and its partner that would allow for some kind of special communication, but firstly, she had assumed all such communication would be something more instinctive and primal, and secondly, she had dashed away all such suspicions when she learned that riders enslaved their dragons rather than bonding with them.How could she have known that she was right all along - or at least half-right? Bastien had said nothing about this, certainly. Or was it possible that this had only happened because her relationship with Netra was so different? Was it because Anzi treated her with the respect and dignity due to another living being, one that thought and felt and deserved more than the future it had been promised?Or maybe it was something else entirely. What was i

Called by the Dragon 45 - Exchanges

Every part of Anzi's body still ached, but she had no regrets about remaining firmly grounded in her own body last night. After Kai told her that it was her doing and not his, she made sure to remain especially vigilant so that she wouldn't make the same mistake again. Her? Wanting to see him? If that was what he thought, then she was only too happy to prove him wrong. From now on, she would stay well away from him and deal with this on her own. If things became so dire that she needed his help, or that of his strange distance-healing magic, at least, she would consider compromising - but as it was, it would be suspicious if she recovered too quickly. Especially since she strongly suspected the Emperor had instructed the physicians to delay her recovery, too.She could never let him discover the extent of Kai's magic. If she were ever forced to ally with him against the Emperor, she needed his advantages to remain a surprise. Tet was strong, stronger than she was. If sh

Called by the Dragon 44 - To Fight

Of course the healers were inadequate. Making excuses that her injuries were too extensive and serious for her to possibly get up and move around on her own anytime soon, and claiming she needed to waste several more days lying in bed and doing nothing at all - these were supposed to be the best in all the Imperial City? Anzi scowled at their efforts, and it was the only time she wished that she were surrounded by those more adept in magic.Damn them. She had expected to be back on her feet today. Experienced healers, her foot. Four days! Four days even with her preternaturally strong constitution, they said, and all that time, she was going to have to rely on someone else to care for Netra. Whoever was responsible for the task had not revealed themselves, nor had they brought the dragon to her. But she couldn't be surprised. Netra was probably terrorizing them according to her ways and would scarcely be manageable to toted around by strangers.All the more reason that

Called by the Dragon 18 - Of Make-believe Things

This wasn't possible. Dragons were all but extinct; everyone knew that.Following the great Purge over two centuries ago, only the scant few taken in by the Empire had survived. The Imperial dragon bonded to the Emperor along with those partnered to his four generals - those were the

Called by the Dragon 17 - The Descent

Anzi felt utterly dwarfed by the gaping, slanted hole in the ground. Five meters across at least, perhaps more, and now that her eyes were finally adjusting to the faint light that flickered from the lone torch, she saw that it was not a hole at all but a long tunnel that gently sloped down into

Called by the Dragon 16 - Trust

"Anzi."She was back on her feet in an instant. Night had fallen hours ago, but the flickering light of the standing torches in the courtyard illuminated every harsh line of Colonel Bisset's face. "Yes, sir.""You're needed. The Emperor will see you first."First? Who e

Called by the Dragon 15 - Separation

Anzi was grateful to finally get away from the chieftain. After spending no more than half a day with him, she was already feeling horribly bereft by his absence, so how much worse would it have been if she had been in his presence any longer? Even now, she thought she could feel the warmth

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