Free Quest Of The Dragon Tamer (Book 1) by Cole Pain Page A

thought in reply.
    “She hurt less than you did.”
    “She doesn’t have magic. She’s more easily merged with you,” the other voice answered with fatherly patience.
    “Will she live?”
    “It appears that way.”
    “Good.”
    “Have we become sentimental, my friend?”
    “Don’t call me friend, bane of my existence. You’re not my friend. As soon as I’m rid of you, I’ve decided to kill you. You’ve awoken the wrath of Sim.”
    “Now, Similian,” the Bane chastised with good humor.
    “Roasted bane will be my most treasured memory.”
    The Bane was silent, but Similian could feel him retreat, doing whatever it was the Bane did when he was silent. Sim felt the other inside him, the woman. She would be different from the Bane. She would care. The Bane didn’t care. The Bane had never befriended him. That was all Sim had wanted, the only reason he had allowed the Bane inside. Sim yearned for knowledge, unlike others of his kind. He wanted to understand, to find a purpose. The Bane had promised Sim those things if Sim would allow him inside. Sim had thought the Bane would teach him what he knew and become a companion, but the Bane taught less and slept more. Similian was lonelier with someone than he had ever been without someone. He wished he hadn’t let the Bane inside. Although he wouldn’t have the answers he searched for, at least he would have lived.
    “I like her. I don’t like you.”
    “I like you, Similian.” The Bane’s thought was pleasant, but it didn’t fool Similian.
    “You lied to me.”
    The Bane heaved an inner sigh. “I didn’t lie to you. We’ve been through this before.”
    “You lied to me.”
    “I told you we were going on one flight, and we went on one flight. I didn’t lie about that.”
    Sim grunted and veered east, away from Stardom. “The flight lasted nine centuries, and you were asleep the entire time.”
    “I told you I would sleep.”
    “Not the entire time.” Similian growled in frustration.
    “But you didn’t ask, Similian. You must learn you can’t interpret someone else’s replies without confirming them with your own words. All creatures believe what they want to believe. You believed what you wanted to believe. But it’s of no consequence. I’m awake now.”
    Sim almost roared his reply. “You wake as soon as the door opens, when I’m finally happy again. You didn’t wake in nine hundred years of flying through nothingness. I think that’s rather rude. I don’t want you anymore. I want you out.”
    “There’s only one way I can get out, Similian. You know that,”the Bane thought. “If you are patient, I’ll be out of you soon enough.”
    “Or so you say. I’m beginning to believe you just want to be Similian the Silver and this saving the Lands affair is another of your lies.”
    “Believe what you will, Similian. Your belief won’t matter. You’ll be there when the opportunity arises.”
    “Why did I let you in?” Similian silently roared. “I didn’t like you then either. Similian should have known better. Similian is smarter than that.”
    “I discussed this with you when we first met. I told you I could make you the most famous dragon in history if you would let me inside you.”
    “I’m not famous. I’m just a popular home.”
    “But you will be, Similian. You will be.”

Chapter 5
    Manda fell off her horse and kicked it in the flank. The horse bolted. Evann cursed and pulled back his mount before Manda was crushed beneath its hooves. When Vos and Yov turned, Evann motioned for them to reclaim Manda’s horse. Evann watched the twins disappear over the horizon. If he wanted to talk to Manda, now was his chance.
    He was living a nightmare. He felt like he was betraying everything he was; but when the twins refused to yield he had insisted on accompanying them, no matter how much he disagreed.
    Manda looked past Evann in stark desperation. Evann turned and cursed the fates for his stupidity. He was so involved in trying