Letter to Carnwen et. al 4

by Alistan De la Roost

Dear Carnwen, Petra, Krysander

Our brother Gideon used to tell my sister and myself stories of how our De La Roost ancestors (before they made deals with Fey) came from a place called Roost. It was said that Roost was the home of Dragon Riders, men and women who lived in kinship with Dragons and fought alongside them, and flew together into combat. These were the years when Irminsul did not exist yet and the Great Devourer Ourborros had not yet broken free, but sometime between then and now Roost was wiped off the map and so were its dragon riders. The reason this came to mind is that today we kind of fought against a Dragon Rider, he was the man in full plate mentioned in my last letter. Though he rode a Wyvern if I have my dracology right.

But I'm once again getting ahead of myself, as you know this day was the day we'd fight an army and his wyvernsaddled commander. Hayley's raven was sent to scout and reported that an army of hundreds was approaching. We all set up around the newly raised barn, some of us, like Reynis, on the roof and others ready to engage steel to steel. I was seated on Torrin when Rayl, for that was the name of the commander on his wyvern, landed and told us he'd fight us first. Out of some, to me, indecipherable sense of honor he wanted to have a go at us first before the army came in 'to finish the job'. We exchanged some words before his charged in together with his wyvern. On my end the fight was a bit frustrating, as I struggled to pierce Rayl's armor and shield and the wyvern bit Torrin down forcing Liliana to spend time stabilizing him. But in the end, Rayl and his wyvern focusing on Liliana and myself played to our advantage as we could synchronize our defense and hold them back as the others brought them down with spells and arrows. In the end it was a flaming orb from Luke that finished Rayl, and we tried to keep him alive for questioning and bound him in some ropes for questioning later. I asked Torrin to get out of the village to keep him safe from any other stray arrow

But here the dragonels above blew a horn and the 2nd wave was already set in, I barely had time to drink one of Hayley's brews and receive some healing touch from my sister as the first signs of fire rose into the sky, but it's where our preparations set in as well as combined with some well placed spells from Hayley the army was repelled as they realized the trap they were walking into.

This was beside one group of drakes and a draconic devil that circled around the flames and charged at us from the South. Some of the drakes tunneled and reached those who usually fight from a safer distance as Liliana and myself were held down by the rest of the forces. The fight turned into a race for time as Reynis yelled that the flames were rapidly closing in on us and, smartly, ran to safety. One by one we managed to dispose of the enemies and Gael, Dadroz and Liliana could retreat. But the insistence of one enemy to hound Luke proved to be too much for our friend, and it took Hayley's magic to force the enemy to fly away and only with a last minute appearance of Torrin, who bravely ran though the fire to get to Hayley and me while Luke ran through the barn with whatever strength was left to him. Don't think we could've lasted another second before succumbing to the flames as Torrin used a cart to jump over the flames, carrying Hayley and myself. I should ask Gael if he can use his magic to speak to horses as well as sheep and thank Torrin for riding into battle with me, and saving me and others so many times.

We took a moment to collect ourselves as we saw remnants of the army we just repelled on the other side of the village, looking at the flames, and we were forced to wait on their next move.

Ali

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