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poor cousin of lumenis.
Any number of dragons raised their craggy heads and peered at him
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with eyes glowing in the night like stars, but no one answered his call.
WingTouch sighed, knowing that his dragons were undoubtedly somewhere in the
camp, lost in conversation.
Draconic discussions, especially when they turned upon the war and upon the
powers and designs of the Enemy, could drone on throughout the night.
WingTouch regarded most such talk as foolishness, and had little patience with
it. Still, when he reached the far perimeter, he was not surprised to find
two members of his patrol, Rocktooth and
FireEye, perched on stone outcroppings, part of a small gathering absorbed in
just such a conversation.
Rocktooth hailed him with a plume of smoke. "WingTouch! They are saying that
the Enemy has been capturing shadow-cats from the valley and turning them into
spirits that can move right through the earth!"
"Why not?" cried another dragon, behind Rocktooth.
"If he can create drahls out of smoke, and cause the moon itself to spy upon
us, I see no reason why he couldn't do that, too."
WingTouch answered with an impatient snort. "If you believe every story about
the Enemy's powers, you'll make a sorry excuse for a warrior!"
"Then tell us what you believe!" said Rocktooth.
"Stonebinder said he saw a shadow-cat come right out of the ground!"
WingTouch inspected his talons, dismissing the story with his silence. "What
the Enemy is doing," he said finally, "I can't guess.
But what we're doing is flying a patrol.
Stretch out your wings and let's go."
Rocktooth grumbled, opening his jaws in a tooth-glittering yawn.
"All right-but if we don't think of these things now, we might wish we had,
later."
"We might," WingTouch acknowledged. "FireEye! You too."
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FireEye slowly stirred, as though waking from a stupor, and blinked his red
eyes. A stout dragon with thick, leathery wings, he was a good fighter-once
aroused. Another dragon, hunched down in front of him, muttered, "I've heard
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that some of the sweepers are not to be trusted, either.
knows about their sympathiest" FireEye, still only , cocked his head and
blinked his ruby eyes again as though ready to join in.
WingTouch was determined to let this go no further. He snapped,
"FireEye-where are the others? Where are Loudcry and LongNail?"
They're in the sleeping warrens," said the dragon who had spoken of the
sweepers.
"Summon them," WingTouch commanded. "It is time to take to the air."
As FireEye and Rocktooth rose to obey, WingTouch surveyed the camp, shaking
his head. Even his friend Loudcry was sleeping when he should have been ready
to fly. In a state of war, how could they be so unwatchful? WingTouch flexed
his wings and considered reproving the others here, but decided that it was
not his place. They were, after all, off duty. Nonetheless, he was troubled
by the idle chatter. When the four of his patrol appeared, he breathed a few
dark words about unpreparedness, then they took off and left the matter behind
them.
The early hours of the patrol passed quietly, as they soared southward over
the eastern face of the Scarred Mount Ridge. Beyond the ridge, some distance
to their right, lay a sparsely inhabited plain known as the Valley Between,
where they had fought for and lost the wild lumenis grove the other night.
Neither the dragons nor the Enemy actively controlled the plain, but both flew
there at times, and both claimed friends among the small winged flyers and
shadow-cats that lived there. The known strongholds of the Enemy were much [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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