by Calista Skye
“It looks like he has an army,” Delyah points out, her voice trembling. “Including cavemen. Is that possible?”
Caronerax reaches out and grabs my hand. “With Yranox, anything is possible. He is unusually persuasive and shrewd. Strong and powerful. Evil and twisted. Nothing I’m seeing here seems impossible.”
My heart sinks in my chest and a coldness spreads through me as I exchange worried glances with Delyah and Phoebe. This is not looking good at all.
“If you fought him,” I ask in a voice that’s at least as unsteady as Delyah’s, “could you win?”
My husband squeezes my hand. “It would be close.”
The other dragon does a lazy spinning loop in the sky, the tips of his wings leaving an intricate set of contrails that shine orange in the light from the setting sun. He is plainly an absolutely formidable enemy.
I squeeze Caronerax right back. I can’t bear even the vague idea of losing him. “Then I won’t let you.”
© Calista Skye 2020
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Dear Reader,
thank you for reading Caveman Alien’s Riddle!
Caronerax is a different dragon from Kyandros and Aragadon. I wanted to see how an even more powerful creature like him would deal with being injured. As it turned out, he didn’t take it all that well, but at least the penny dropped for him by the end.
Jennifer was incredibly patient with him, I think. She has more going on upstairs than she ever thought, she just needed a way to find her talents. Hey, whittling a wooden hairpin with what is essentially a small pocket knife is not a joke. Try it and see :)
I feel bad for the spidermonkey that was killed while he was bringing Jennfer’s message back. But it was a pretty heroic death if it took two whole spears to kill him, and I think he would be okay with having done his very best.
Those little guys will be important in the next part of this series. We know they are fierce, and at some point they’re going to get their fill of all the dragon stuff and just snap. That will be pretty chilling. The dragons should never have messed with them.
Heidi wasn’t dead at all, just semi-unconscious with her eyes open. Something similar happened to me when I was a kid. I slid on the ice, banged my head on the ground and contracted a pretty bad concussion. I’m told my eyes were open, but it was impossible to communicate with me in any meaningful way. My mother was extremely worried for a while. I recovered quickly, as did Heidi.
Did you like Marshie? I had a lot of fun writing about her. I think she will find a good guy monster and they will live happily ever after on that pretty rad island she’s either made or found, I’m not sure which and she’s not telling me.
I know the title of this book doesn’t quite work. The riddle has little to do with the cavemen. But that’s the title format of this series, and at this point I’m stuck with it. I suppose I can say that all the dragons are riddles to the cavemen, so the most mysterious of them must be the greatest riddle? Or something like that.
Things are really coming to a head now. Even the Plood have returned, and everything seems to be going straight to hell for the girls. They even lost their village, for crying out loud.
This book ended on kind of a cliffhanger, and I apologize for that. But I need two books to complete the pretty pivotal subplot of Caronerax and his brother.
And also to see if the girls can ever go back to Earth. That will finally be resolved in the next book, which is Beatrice’s story and expected in January of 2021.
I hope to see you then!
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Thanks again!
Calista
PS: Did you try my new series of science fiction romance, called Alien Abductors? If not, the first part is right here.
