Drake Take: Dragon Fairy Tales, #4

By D.C. Harrell

Save the baby. Save the world. 

Tungel is pregnant, and the baby's father is absent. As her contractions escalate, way-drakes slither closer, scorching the furniture and threatening to set the house on fire. 

The fire dragons thirst for her baby's blood. Tungel must flee to the river or burn alive with the child. 

Her parents insist that she sacrifice the baby to save herself. She refuses, appealing to star magic and her beloved's promise to protect her. 

Will her lover arrive in time to stop this drake-take? 

With the fourth stand-alone Dragon Fairy Tale, D.C. Harrell wrings you out like a mop, but don't read it if you take your supergirls sanitized. This heroine's journey into young adulthood is a mess of mythical animals, afterbirth and blood-power. 

If you like stubborn heroines who fight through murky magic, then Drake Take is the wild water for your next swim. 

Got an hour? Download Drake Take now and quench your thirst for baptism by fire.

Or find all six Dragon Fairy Tales collected as Dragon Hoard: Dragon Fairy Tales 1-6. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stone's Throw Publishing
• Release date: Mar 6, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386566113

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Drake Take

Drake Take

D.C. Harrell

Stone’s Throw Publishing

Copyright © 2018 by D.C. Harrell

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Published by Stone’s Throw Publishing, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55410.

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Cover design adapted, with gratitude, from Sophia Feddersen’s (The Book Brander) design for Dragon Hoard: Dragon Fairy Tales 1-6.

Typesetting created with Vellum.

Contents

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Drake Take

Author’s Note

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Dragon Hoard: Dragon Fairy Tales 1-6

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Or buy them individually here:

1. Fisherman and Old Cloot

2. A Deal is a Deal

3. Dragon Wear

4. Drake Take

5. Drakonian Pink

6. Tarragon Hair

Drake Take

Just like every other girl, in every other village, in every other age, Tungel tended the way-drakes in her mother’s house. She was first among her friends to feed the drakes, as befits a holder’s daughter and a future holder-wife, but this was small comfort now that Shepherd hadn’t come.

Her belly contracted, squeezing out tears that trickled down her nose. Did Mother even see them? Did she care?

Tungel gripped the edge of her bench with one hand and the wooden table with the other. Across from her, Mother stood, chopping vegetables with short, quick downstrokes. As she turned to splash potatoes into the Paragon stew, her calm midwife-voice instructed, Now, deep breaths. In. She elongated the word for effect. Then she intoned, Out, and exhaled loudly to demonstrate.

Only after Mother stirred the soup, did she glance behind Tungel and reach for the mop, which waited in a bucket full of water. Tungel didn’t need to look to know that scaly snouts were shooting flames into the open door.

No one knew where way-drakes lived, but doorways were their prime hunting grounds, and what way-drakes hungered for was blood. Tarry too long between the inside and the out, between one place and another, and