Five – 04

“It’s close, then,” Matt said quietly, crossing his arms. “And not in very deep water, either.”

“We don’t know how deep that water might be now, Matt. The lake’s risen a lot.”

“Not that much,” he said, his gaze drifting toward the coals trapped in his forge. I stared at him for a long, hard moment, my brow furrowing.

“Let him think, Mar,” J.T. said before I could open my mouth. I looked at him funny, brow creasing.

“What makes you think I—”

“Because it’s what you do,” he said, tempering his chiding with a smile. “I know you, remember?”

I mock-glowered at him a moment before I remembered that Vasily was there, standing and watching us. He must have thought we were absolutely batshit crazy—as if he and his companions in the Wild Hunt hadn’t figured that out already.

After all, we were letting them make a home with us here. No one entirely sane would choose to allow that to happen. Not only were they a band of hardened warriors—killers, really—they had more than a few enemies. When combined with our own growing list of adversaries, combining the two lists probably wasn’t the smartest of ideas.

The price had been Seamus’s freedom, though, and we couldn’t deny him that, nor could we deny the weary riders of the Hunt a place they could finally call home again for the first time in a very long time for mos.

“Do you think Phelan will know something?” I asked J.T. after a moment.

J.T. shrugged. “Phelan knows a little bit about everything, so I guess we just have to hope. Maybe he does and maybe he doesn’t. Thordin certainly seemed to have an inkling.”

I glanced toward the door, frowning. He certainly did. “Well, either he’ll come back and share with the class or he’s already gone off to either slay the dragon or raise the alarm.”

“Do you think those are out there now?”

I startled at my brother’s question. “What?”

“Dragons,” he said. “Do you think they’re out there now?”

“I don’t—”

“Without a doubt,” Vasily said, leaving the three of us to stare at him in shock.

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