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Dorothy McFalls
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Curse of the Midnight Dragon
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Author Insight
A Poisoned Arrow
Amaya, the midnight dragon, is in a world of trouble. Cut off from her clan and taken as a prisoner by someone who can control her power.
Book Excerpt
Curse of the Midnight Dragon
The plateau was speeding toward me when something foreign and fiery tore through my side. I cried out in pain and crumpled in on myself. My wings collapsed. And suddenly, I was falling, tumbling out of the air like a boulder breaking off the side of a cliff. The pine trees cruelly ripped at my scales, tore at my wings as I crashed through their canopy. I then slammed into the straw-covered ground with a bone-bruising jolt.Each breath hurt. Poison. I must have been shot by a poisoned arrow. One tinged with that cursed blood magic. A mere arrow wouldn’t have taken me from the sky. It felt like the poisoned fire that had blasted into my side was spreading, consuming me from the inside out.“Well, well, well,” a deep voice rumbled.I peeled open one eye halfway. My fuzzy vision could barely make out a tall, shiny black boot and the end of a black cape. I blinked several times, as I struggled and failed to bring the blurred face of my attacker into focus.A gloved hand pressed on the side of my face. “You’re a young one, aren’t you? But strong.” He stroked the shimmering scales beneath my eye with the tips of his fingers. “Pretty, too. You’ll do nicely.”I tried to pull away from him.“Ah-ah-ah,” he murmured. “Don’t fight me.” There was a clank of metal before a heavy cuff—imbued with so much of that blood magic that its power tunneled deep into my scales—closed around my leg. And then another. And another. And another until all my limbs were shackled. “You’re mine now. You move only when I tell you to move.”“You can’t do this,” I tried to protest. But the world went dark as my body shifted. Without my consent and with a fiery explosion of pain, I shifted from the sleek shape of a midnight dragon back to my soft human form.“I can do this. And I have,” he said as he wrapped his thick cloak around my naked body. He lifted me into his arms as if I weighed nothing. With a sigh, he started the long trek out of the forest.
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