All Chapters of The Dragon King Is a Girl: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Fin didn't want to be ridden. That much was clear. He’d let me mount him, but he hadn’t intended to fly. Neither had I, of course. But now we were here. In the air. Careening at speeds that no novice rider ever should have flown, least of all on the back of an angry Flyer who hadn’t been ridden in y

“It looks very old.”“Perhaps Fin hasn’t had a rider in a long time,” he replied with a shrug. “Flyers are usually reserved for freshmen. When a student finds a real dragon, they move on to the next student. Given Fin’s temperament… I doubt he gets chosen very often.”“Or maybe he’s picky about who he chooses,” I suggested.Flyers were training dragons. That was the system — you rode them until you found your real dragon, and then the Flyer went back to its pen and waited for the next student. They cycled through owners the way practice swords cycled through hands. Most people didn't think twice about it. Flyers weren't considered intelligent enough to mind.But Fin minded. I could tell from looking at him. There was a keenness in his eyes, a dark intelligence. You looked at him, and he looked back. He was smart enough to choose his own rider, and he hadn’t chosen in a very long time, because his last rider left him for something bigger and stronger and with more scales.Maybe that was

One second.It took one second for Kael Draven to piss me off. Just like old times. He’d seemed to have a knack for it since we were six and he only got better by the year, shaving the time down to nothing.“Why not make it three times?” I shot back sarcastically, annoyed now. “Since you took me to the infirmary after the entrance exam.”He frowned a little, brows pulling together as if remembering something. Then, in his usual calm tone, he replied, “That doesn’t count. Because that was technically my fault.”I looked at him, expecting him to crack a sneer or laugh in my face for letting him defeat me that day. But he seemed serious. He wasn’t mocking me for once.Odd.I flushed hotly and looked away. Somehow, that only added to my frustration. Did he pity me or something?"Still. You should have told me," I said. "Before you grabbed my reins and started giving orders. If I'd known you were keeping score, I wouldn't have let you. I don’t like owing people, Kael.”He said nothing."I'm

The day of the Riding Competition arrived faster than I expected. I woke early for breakfast, grabbing a bowl of porridge from the breakfast line. I was just turning, looking for a place to sit, when someone walked directly into me. My bowl went sideways. Porridge went down my jacket, soaking throu

Liana’s POV The window had seemed like a better idea from the floor, but up close, with one leg dangling over the back of the toilet and the other hitched up on top of the stall door, it was a different story. Three floors down, the courtyard waited. I didn’t know what I was thinking, trying to c