Two hatchlings were already loose in the hatchery. One had a human in its mouth and was shaking him from side to side like a dog worrying a rabbit. The man was already dead. The hatchery was smaller than the ones the dragon remembered, much smaller. Cramped and smelly. Smelled of wood and tar and water.
In the doorway stood a silhouette. A silhouette of silver.
Be STILL!
The dragon hissed. No.
One hatchling sprang; the other dropped the dead man. The sorcerer who blocked their escape shifted, the silver he wrapped around him flowing like water into a long spike in front of him. It touched – a scratch – the first hatchling, and the dragon fell dead. The second hatchling ripped the sorcerer’s head off. Even as it did, the silver flowed again. The hatchling shuddered and collapsed beside the sorcerer’s corpse. They both lay still while the sorcerer’s liquid silver turned hard and dull on the floor.
The dragon called Silence jumped on the corpse. Everyone else had fled. It seized the dead sorcerer’s head between its jaws and bit down. Hard.
Free…
‘Sea-Lord?’
With a sigh Quai’Shu eased his aching joints out of his comfortable chair and stood up. As he did, he happened to glance out of the stern windows at the end of his cabin.
Half his ships were burning.
Quai’Shu’s jaw fell open. Before he could think, a voice thundered straight into his head, just like the moon-sorcerers had done.
I am Silence, it said, and I am hungry.
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