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Chapters (50)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
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  49. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  50. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

“I am Sikurgurd,” the dwarf said as Gabriel carried him toward the tunnel he’d pointed out earlier. “And Dracsi are the large beasts you must have seen as you arrived. You know, big teeth, scales, that sort of thing. The Old Ones named us Dracsi-kin because we were made by D’hea to care for them. We haven’t been allowed any other life, and the Old Ones ensure we never rebel with the Ritual.”

“That’s when the Q one takes your spirit?” Jia asked.

“Q’baos,” the dwarf confirmed. “Dracsi-kin who have mastered their inner control of magic are forced to take the Ritual. I hadn’t yet finished my apprenticeship when the last human arrived, and—”

“Tell us about him,” Fort said. “The human you said was taken to the Dragon’s Teeth. Is he okay? What happened to him?”

Sikurgurd seemed to shrug, but it was hard to tell with him hanging upside down behind Gabriel. “I don’t know. Only those at the Ritual could have told you.”

“Was the human alone?” Gabriel asked.

“Strange that you should ask,” the dwarf said. “I’ve heard different stories. Some say it was just one, but others claim there was a human closer to our size—”

“Fort!” Jia shouted as Gabriel immediately came to a halt. “That could be Michael!”

Michael? He’d been a fourth student, back at the original school at the NSA. Damian, Sierra, Jia, and Michael, Colonel Charles’s son who’d been studying Destruction magic, and who was also… oh wow.

“Yeah, the monsters took him also,” Jia said, confirming what he was thinking. “If there’s a chance he’s still… we have to bring him back too, Fort!”

“Does anyone else remember that there are horrible tentacle monsters on their way as we speak?” Rachel asked. “Just me? No one else, then? That’s what I thought.”

“I agree with the excited human,” Sikurgurd said. “You are all doomed.”

“Thank you!” Rachel said. “Now are we at least getting close to this Teeth place?”

The dwarf nodded in the direction they were going. “We’ll pass through the city up ahead, and then hit the mines on the other side. There are carts leading down to Dragon’s Teeth. We don’t mine there anymore, so if we can get that far, you’ll be safe from my people. The city, on the other hand, won’t be easy to pass. Every elder Dracsi-kin is hoping to please Q’baos by finding you themselves.”

Rachel covered her mouth to scream relatively silently, while Fort just leaned toward the dwarf. “Sikurgurd, you know, if we get out of here, you could come with us,” he said. “We can’t just leave you here to… to have your spirit taken from you.”