House of Ashes (DRAGONESSE #1) by Cate Corvin EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Cate Corvin
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An hour after the news of my father’s death broke, I was roaringly
drunk and raising a toast to his suffering.
“May the old bastard rot in the Nine Hells!” a ferryman bellowed,
hoisting a tankard.
My vision was already blurring as I lifted another mug of the swill they
called ‘shine’ here on Mistward Isle, and cheered with everyone else.
It burned going down, and that was fine with me. The fire in my
stomach was better than the numbness that had come over me when the
news was first broken.
I’d only been in the town because this was the day the ferrymen—
wyvern-riders who’d chosen trading over message routes—came to
Mistward Isle with the dregs of their cargo. All the better goods would’ve
been sold on the mainland, and we were in the lean season here on the Isle.
Previous lean seasons had taught me the value of being well prepared.
I’d scraped together a few stolen and scavenged half-moons to venture
to Farpost to buy bread, excited that I’d have something to eat besides
scorched campfire rabbit for once…or worse, raw rabbit. Sometimes the
campfire wasn’t worth the risk.
But instead of their usual orderly offloading, the first group of ferrymen
had come racing in from the eponymous mists that surrounded the island,
their wyverns nearly crashing into the docks in their haste to land.
Cargo had spilled everywhere, torn from the wyvern’s belly-nets. Chaos
ensued as everyone grabbed for scattered food or damaged supplies. A few
dragons had grabbed entire crates, vanishing into the alleys of Farpost with
their stolen treasure and ensuring that more than a few convicts would go
hungry tonight.
Then one of the ferrymen had the wherewithal to stop everyone dead in
their tracks by shouting the news out over the tumult.
Nasir of the House of Undying Light, Drakkon of the Royal Koressis
Eyrie, the dragon who had united all the Houses in his youth and torn them
apart in his senescence—the dragon who had made me, loved me, then
exiled me—was dead.
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