All Chapters of The Dragon Thief: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

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Chapter 11: Wedding Plans

With Bynjym bound in soul and scale,He guards the flight, he guards the tale.He fights the lords who steal with might,And shields the eggs through storm and night.Skylar“I know you don’t like pomp and circumstance, Skylar, but it’s proper to invite the other royals to a royal wedding,” Kenneth says.“ALL of them?” I ask him.Why? Why do I have to invite the other royals to MY wedding?“Only the ones in the surrounding kingdoms and the ones you don’t want to offend,” he says, grinning at me.Basically, we have to invite all of them. Lord knows that royals get their pretty panties in a wad over just about anything. Not getting an invite to a wedding would definitely be seen as an offense, and our wedding is a big deal. We’re uniting two kingdoms.“Fine,” I say, rolling my eyes.“Where would you like to get married, here in your father’s kingdom, or in our kingdom?”Our kingdom. Once we’re married, I’ll be expected to leave my father’s castle and live in Kenneth’s.I look around at t

Chapter 12: The Silver Dragons

To him, these eggs are not to claim,But sacred birth, not bought by name.He wages war with truth and wing,To end the theft, to break the king.SkylarThe answer to my problem of getting to King Emmanuel's castle came the following day.“Skylar, now that King Emmanuel has an egg, I need to go hunt for my own. Please make yourself at home here in the castle. You’re welcome to anything. You will be queen here in a few short months. I’ve ordered the staff to follow all your directions and to help you with planning our wedding while I’m away. Will you wait for me to return before you go home?”“Of course, Kenneth,” I say. I would have anyway. If he comes home with an egg, I’ll have to find a way to return that one too.I know it’s because it’s nesting season for the dragons, but it suddenly feels like I’m going to be returning eggs one after another if this keeps up. In the past, it was only one a year that I had to return. Now, either the royals are getting better at stealing eggs, or t

Chapter 13: The Woman

By fate or star or twist of thread,To Skylar’s path, this rider’s led.He meets the thief beneath the moon,A blade, a breath, a shadowed boon.RyukiI hate that my dragon is talking to this woman.‘She’s getting our egg and bringing it back to us, Ryuki. It’s not like she’s going to become my rider.’‘But you’re talking to her. Yttyc is talking to her.’‘We are the most powerful dragons here. She is helping us get our egg back. Perhaps next time you’d like me to drop you off outside the castle walls so YOU can collect the egg?’ he growls at me.‘What is it about her?’ I ask angrily.Bynjym is quiet a moment. ‘I don’t know,’ he says softly.And that right there is what’s bothering me. No one seems to know how a woman, who isn’t even bonded to a dragon, can possibly speak to not one, but all the dragons.‘I already told you that whatever this is, it won’t break our bond.’‘You can’t know that, Bynjym. You said yourself you don’t know what this is, so you have no idea how it will impact

Chapter 14: Harsh Reality

Yet in her eyes, no traitor gleams,But sorrow forged in broken dreams.She lifts her veil, she speaks her name,And dares to voice her house’s shame.SkylarI really don’t have time for this. Do they not understand how long it takes a person to walk versus fly? Do they not understand that I’m trying to stay incognito so no one finds out who I am?The sweet red dragon already thanked me. That’s enough. She got her egg back, that was the point of all of this.Yet, here I am, walking to her nest with several dragons and a rider.“What’s your name?” I ask the rider.“What’s yours?” he asks defensively.“Skylar,” I say, looking at him like he’s being ridiculous.“I’m Ryuki.”“Hi, Ryuki. Your dragon is pretty sarcastic.”I watch him grin, then look up at his dragon. The grin widens. I don’t have to hear the dragon to know he’s disagreeing with my assessment of him.“He has his moments.”“Yeah, well, can you put in a good word for me so I can get out of here. I need to get back before I’m mi

Chapter 15: A Queen's Confrontation

“I am the child of crown and flame,Yet not my father’s cruel acclaim.He steals what none should ever own,I bring the lost ones safely home.”RyukiMy dragon is many things; he’s intelligent, cunning, sarcastic, annoying, flirtatious, powerful, and fierce. But I’ve never known my dragon to recoil in the face of someone else’s anger. Until now.Yes, Skylar was beating on him after he crushed the egg. I didn’t see it. I wasn’t close enough to him to see what he was doing. But from the feelings I got from Bynjym, I knew the little dragon was suffering and he was doing what needed to be done to put her out of her misery. But it wasn’t Skylar’s fists that made my big, powerful dragon flinch. It was her words, her unwillingness to even hear his reasoning behind what he did.I watch Yttyc lift off the ground and get Skylar, flying her back to the castle.‘Bynjym,’ I begin, ready to soothe my dragon. I know he did the right thing, even if Skylar doesn’t.‘We should get back. We need to get f

Chapter 16: Hiding the Evidence

He sees within a fire the same,A soul unbowed by blood or name.And she, in him, the sky set free,Not chained by kings, but destiny.SkylarI can’t get the image of that little red dragon out of my head. She was here, alive and breathing one minute, and the next she was gone. Forever.‘Skylar, you have to understand …’ Yttyc begins.‘No! I don’t have to understand anything, Yttyc. He killed her. That’s what I KNOW,’ I say, unwilling to hear anything else while I have the memory of her moving in her egg fresh in my mind and the smell if her death on my clothes.He’s quiet after that, landing back at King Emmanuel’s castle.“This isn’t where I need to go,” I tell him, softly. I don't want his help, but I need it if I'm going to get back into Kenneth's castle unseen.‘Where do you need to go?’ he asks.“There is a castle between here and the one that stole the golden egg. That’s the castle I need to go to.”He carefully scoops me up again and begins flying me to Kenneth’s castle.“Do yo

Chapter 17: Confronting Bynjym

Her heart, once pledged to hollow throne,Now beats for one whose path is lone.For Kenneth, prince with heart of stone,Knows naught of flame nor dragon bone.Ryuki‘So, what’s the plan?' I ask Bynjym.‘We’re going to pick her up and bring her here to Ylys,’ he says.I stare at my dragon. ‘You can’t just fly into a castle, pluck her off the ground, and bring her here,” I say.‘Why not?’‘Because it’s dangerous.” I say slowly, as if my dragon is missing the vital point of this conversation. ‘Because they have harpoons. Because they want us dead.’‘They don’t want us dead, they just want our eggs,’ he says, ignoring my aggravation that the dragons aren’t taking this more seriously.‘Do you really think that if you start scooping up their people they won't start hunting all of us down to kill us?’ I ask.‘We aren’t scooping up everyone. Just Skylar. We don’t care about the others.’‘Bynjym …’ I begin.‘Ylys has requested we bring Skylar to her, so we shall,’ he says.I sigh. I know there

Chapter 18: Talking to Ylys

But Ryuki, forged in flight and flame,Would die before he brought them shame.Their hearts entwine like roots of old,In love unbought, in legends bold.SklyarOhh, that dragon! He is SO arrogant. I swear if he didn’t have the ability to burn the people in the castle to ash, I’d have continued to ignore him.I mean, the nerve of him! As if I’ll just drop everything I’m doing so I can abide by his every whim. Like I’m going to rush to talk to him just because he’s a dragon and beckoned me to come.And THEN, the audacity of him saying that I’m putting lives in front of me as a shield … like a coward. I’ll show him a coward.He definitely wasn’t happy when I told him I’d rather be a coward than a murderer. Two can play this game, silver.Then, the arrogant dragon had the nerve to carry me away! He said he wanted to talk. I can’t just go off and not expect people to wonder where I am. I already have King Solomon breathing down my neck and if Kenneth returns while I’m gone, he’ll ask quest

Chapter 19: The Queen's Response

Yet danger breathes on every side,For truth too long must cease to hide.The king, with eyes like coals alight,Now scents the wind and smells the blight.Ryuki‘Tell me you didn’t know she was a princess,’ I snarl at Bynjym.‘How would I know that?’ he asks me.He’s been giving me the running commentary between Ylys and Skylar, so I know what they've been talking about.‘I don’t know! That breathing thing you do,’ I say.‘It tells us who you are at your core, Ryuki. Being a princess is a title, it’s not the same thing.’‘So Ylys didn’t know either?’ I ask, watching as Ylys leans forward to look at Skylar again.This time, her look is a bit more menacing and while I’m not thrilled to learn that Skylar is a royal, I also don’t want Ylys to kill her.I didn’t hear what Ylys said to her, but Skylar’s response shocks me. She shoves Ylys’ muzzle.“Knock it off, Ylys. You’ve breathed in my scent or whatever the hell you do when you sniff me. I’m the one who has returned the eggs to you. ME!

Chapter 20: Confronting Kenneth

Should he unveil his daughter’s game,He’ll cast her life to ash and flame.The thief revealed, the crown defied,No plea, no mercy, none allied.SkylarI’ve been gone too long. I know that. This time, I didn’t have time to come up with a plan for a reason that I was out of sight.I carefully make my way back into the castle. Since I thought I was just going to talk to Bynjym, I didn’t put on my cloak or my egg snatching clothes. I just wore a simple dress, one I could put on by myself, so I could move quickly.When I get back to the castle, there’s a lot of commotion. I grab one of the servants and find out that Kenneth and his group have returned.I race to my room and find Genevieve there waiting for me.“Milady! Where have you been?”“I went for a walk. How long as Prince Kenneth been back?” I ask her.“Long enough that he’s asked for you but not so long that I wasn’t able to stall.”“You’re the best, Gen, thank you! Hurry, let’s make me presentable.”She helps me to quickly get dr

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