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We crept down the passage, rounding bends, and the roar of the surf grew fainter, replaced by drips and trickles deeper within the cave. Soon, we were close enough to the lair that my own ability to sense magic, one of the few powers I’d inherited from the father I’d never met, let me feel the aura of thewyvern.
The tunnel widened into a chamber twenty feet high and twice that deep. We had gone back far enough that I guessed we were under the spot where I’d parked my Jeep. A hundred feet underit.
Stalactites leered down from above, and stalagmites interfered with the view ahead. I couldn’t yet see our target, but I could smell her. More bones littered the floor in here. Some were deer and some were human, with blood and gristle still clinging tothem.
My grip tightened on Fezzik, anger simmering as I wondered how many people this intruder in our world had killed in addition to those caught on thevideo.
She is resting behind those stalagmites,Sindari said.Your mongrel aura is weak, but you should cloakyourself.
It’s subtle, not weak. Just likeme.
You are as subtle as those massive steel orbs on chains that pummel the sides of yourbuildings.
Wrecking balls, yeah, yeah.I touched the powerful cloaking charm, another hard-won prize, and faded from the sight and smell of others. My aura, my signature to those who could sense magic, alsodisappeared.
Sufficient, Sindarisaid.
Knowing I would prefer to attack from a distance and the higher ground, he led me toward a natural ramp creeping up the side of the chamber to a ledge. Just as the blue scales and folded wings of the dozing wyvern came into view, Sindari halted. His tail went rigid, and he whirled back toward theentrance.
Certain he’d sensed a second wyvern, I also turned, pointing Fezzik at the tunnel. I didn’t see or hearanything.
We need to get out of here.Sindari took a step but halted.No, we can’t go that way. He’s coming thatway.
My ferocious battle tiger, the same tiger who’d been worried the wyvern would be too easy an opponent, looked around, nostrils flaring in fear as he sought some back exit from thecave.
I started to ask why, but then I sensed it. Something with an aura so great that even I could feel it from far away. And tell that it was gettingcloser.
He’s coming,Sindari groaned into mymind.
What is it?I’d never sensed anything likethis.
Adragon.
