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Havorleth stared at him for several seconds before grinning. "You are a terrible liar whelp." He started stalking forward with a predatory gleam in his eyesEthan, Alana, and Rachel began to backup, trying to ensure there was enough time to dive out of the way if he started to shoot flame. Ethan started charging his hammer again, this time planning to fill it to its full capacity to make the bolt as powerful as possible.*Spread out and stall as long as possible.* He thought to Alana. *I need more time to charge a final bolt of lightning.**Will do.* The wood elf broke off from them and started heading toward the port side of the ship while Ethan headed to starboard. Rachel seemed to catch on and split the difference between them.Havorleth stalked down the stars from the quarterdeck, taking his time to observe them. He glanced back and forth between them as if sizing them up. That's when Ethan saw Hailey. She was at the top of the stairs to the lower decks, behind Havorleth and compl
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Alana breathed a sigh of relief.She would be okay.As she looked at the place the wound had been, she couldn't help but notice the curve of Rachel's hip, which had been exposed when the wood elf had cut away the fabric around the wound. She just stared at it for a moment before realizing she was staring.Her hip was beautiful.Never in her life had Alana found a part of another woman's body to be attractive. Of course she wasn't blind and noticed when a woman was attractive, but never before had never before been attracted.Except this morning...Her cheeks got very warm as she thought about how Rachel had kissed her in the dream and how much she loved how it felt. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and let it out slowly. She was married to Ethan now; she needed to lock up these feelings. She was very grateful that she'd changed her mental defenses that morning so these feelings wouldn't leak to Ethan over their bond."Hey, she'll be fine." He said wrapping his arms around her
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The noise Ethan made in response was a mix between and cat purring and an aroused growl. "I can't wait to see that."She nodded. "Yeah."Ethan yawed, then glanced at the captain's cabin. "I'm beat, we should go to bed.""Fine by me." She gave him a sly grin and subtly altered her body language to accentuate her figure."I meant to sleep; we can do the other thing tomorrow."She stuck out her lower lip in a mock pout, but nodded. "Okay."They went into the captain's cabin. She slipped out of her dress, joined him in bed, and they snuggled together. He put his arms around her and they lay like that for a few minutes."What about Taloni?" Alana asked on the edge of sleep."Hmm, what about her?" He replied, similarly near sleep."Do you want to see her holding your baby?"He made an appreciative grunt. Strangely, she found she wasn't too concerned by that. It was fine with her. If he wanted to impregnate his other wife, she didn't mind. Besides, the Fey teen would look really good holding
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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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