Page 66 of Consort's Dragon
“So mighty you couldn’t defeat Zhos, only incapacitate it.”
Argent’s expression twisted into something less than human.“That foul being isn’t from here.As such, we lack the ability to kill it.”
“If that’s true, then we’re doomed,” Griff stated.“Once Zhos escapes, there will be no way to stop it.”
“Not entirely true.While powerful, it has limits, and there is a way to rid the world of it.It would seem the wily humans who betrayed us did so with a plan.A plan a thousand years in the making.”Argent stared at the sky.
“No one plots that far ahead.”
“Your ancestors did.Much has become clear since my release.”
“To you, maybe.Care to explain?”
“No.”Argent glanced at Griff.“We should go ashore to find out what is happening.”Argent’s gaze strayed to the clouds of smoke.“I must try and contact my kin.”
“I doubt we can send them a letter.”
“As if I’d trust a message to a courier,” Argent scoffed.“Dragons only converse face to face.”
“I thought you said it would take too long to get there.”
“On foot, yes.But you forget, I can fly.”
“I can’t,” Griff grumbled.
“You should know by now that isn’t a problem.”Argent grinned with gleaming teeth and a mischievous glint in his eyes.
“Oh, no, not again.I don’t enjoy being carted around like a sack of potatoes.”
“And I don’t like you enough to let you ride me like a horse.”
“Well, it’s a moot point seeing as how you’re two-legged like me at the moment,” Griff retorted.
“Am I?”Argent winked.Without a further word, he dove from the side of the boat, leading some of the crew to call out, “Man overboard.”
Only it wasn’t a man that surfaced.
Screams erupted as a serpentine head breached the water.
“Dragon!Crank the harpoon,” hollered Kelly.
“Belay that order,” Griff bellowed.“Kreed, don’t let anyone attack.”
“Is that our friend?”Kreed yelled back.
“Aye.”
A statement that led to Argent saying in his head,Friend?That’s rather presumptuous.
Griff scowled.“What do you think you’re doing?”
I told you I wish to learn about the situation in Merisu.
“You could have been more discreet.”
Now where’s the fun in that?Argent pushed himself out of the water, further revealing his slick-scaled bulk.Griff had to wonder how he would be able to launch himself into flight.
Apparently, quite easily.One moment, Argent floated in the ocean, the next, he propelled himself from the water.He pumped his wings and shook like a dog, spattering everyone on deck, or at least those who hadn’t fled in fear.
