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Dragon Wizard
Book: Dragon Wizard Read Online Free
Author: S. Andrew Swann
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of the situation sank in, she pulled together my personal retainers. I guess they were
her
personal retainers now. I felt a great wave of relief when I saw that no one else had been injured as severely as Brock.
    Although the verdict was still out on Sir Forsythe. No one had seen him after he’d leaped out the great windows after the dragon.
    Lucille gathered them all around the splintered throne as the night air blew in through the shattered grand windows, a half-dozen handmaid-warriors; Grace, Mary, Laya, Thea, Krys, and Rabbit. Lucille looked out the window at the horizon, as if she was searching for the dragon.
    For me.
    The wind bit our face as she said, “You’re here because, after Brock and Sir Forsythe, you’re the people Frank trusts most.”
    â€œYour Highness?” I heard Krys’s voice from behind us. “Why are you talking like Brock?”
    Lucille sighed, and Mary said, “It isn’t Princess Frank anymore.”
    â€œ
What?
” said several voices at once.
    Lucille turned around to face Mary. “You didn’t tell them?”
    â€œToo much to explain,” Mary said. “And people could have overheard.”
    Lucille nodded.
    Grace, the nominal leader of the six, stepped forward hobbling as she leaned on a crutch that was made for someone about two inches taller. “What happened here?”
    â€œBeyond what you saw?” Lucille gestured at the corpse of Prince Daemonlas, which still lay where it had fallen nearly two hours ago. “The spell he cast threw me out of my body and back into this one.”
    Grace waved at the remains of the great hall and said, “So you didn’t do all this?”
    â€œNo.”
    â€œThen who did?” Laya asked.
    Lucille hesitated and Mary filled the silence by quietly saying, “You don’t
know
.”
    â€œDon’t know what?” Grace asked.
    â€œFrank,” Lucille whispered.
    Most everyone else responded by saying,
“What?”
except Mary, who looked disappointed, and Rabbit who made up for being mute by providing a you-must-be-crazy expression.
    â€œIt’s the only thing that makes sense. We swapped bodies. Again.”
    Krys shook her head. “No, it doesn’t make sense. That would mean he tried to kill you, that he almost killed Brock.”
    â€œThat’s better than the alternative.”
    â€œWhat alternative?” Grace said.
    â€œThat he’s gone.”
    The only sound in the hall was the wind blowing from outside and the distant sound of chirping insects. I saw the girls’ faces through Lucille’s eyes and realized they all thought I was dead.
    â€œNo! I’m here! I haven’t gone anywhere!”
I tried to shout through whatever barrier separated me and Lucille. We were in the same skull, she
had
to sense I was here on some level.
    Or not.
    For all my mental screaming, Lucille went on talking to the girls as if I wasn’t there. So much that it became hard for
me
to believe I was still there.
    â€œI’m going to need your help,” Lucille said to them.
    Grace nodded. “If we can help Frank—”
    â€œWhatever happened to him,” Krys interjected.
    â€œWe’re at your service, Your Highness,” Grace finished.
    â€œGood. Thank you.”
    â€œWhat do you need from us?” Grace said.
    â€œFirst I need all of you sworn to secrecy. No one outside this room is to know Frank is missing.”
    I am not missing! I’m still here!
    The response was three “What”s, two “Why”s, and a puzzled expression from Rabbit.
    Lucille sighed, and she explained, “First off, we don’t know if the spell misfired when Sir Forsythe killed the elf. If this was an attack directed at me specifically, and the body-swapping is unintentional, we don’t want the attacker to know what happened. It could invite another attack.”
    â€œWith all due respect, Your Highness,” Grace

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