Yeah, I know, what a lame title. Turns out titles aren't my forte. Anyway, next chapter for The Dragon and the Unicorn, Book I. Please comment and let me know what you all think!
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Chapter Seventeen: A Chance to DreamJake felt fresh surprise when he woke up. His entire body hurt, his head felt like a brass band was playing the 1812 overture in his noggin, but the fact he could even wake up astonished him.
How he had managed to survive lay beyond his reasoning, but he quietly blessed his luck. He wouldn't care to put it to such a test again, but he had survived.
As he became more and more aware, he risked opening his eyes, wondering if he'd gone blind. Nope, they worked just fine; he could see dust falling from a grey sky in fine particles. He stretched his wings slowly and carefully; jolts of pain shot through them, but they obeyed his commands. At last he regained his feet; his muscles shrieked in protest, but supported him.
Now upright again, he examined his surroundings. As he might have expected, most of the buildings surrounding him were completely flattened. Some stood upright however, surrounded by a white glowing shield of energy that extended upwards of almost three hundred feet, encompass
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Chapter Fifteen: RevelationsJake followed the line of Humvees and jeeps as they raced towards the Grand Hotel near the center of the city. The monstrous edifice loomed some thirty-six stories into the air, with three casinos on the bottom floors and hundreds of rooms on the upper floors. In the center of the building stood a waterslide that raced down eight stories before landing in the basement where a huge waterpark had been built for the guests. Jake had seen plenty of advertisements for it, saying the grandest architects of Los Vegas had built the glittering desert town in one place.
Jake hadn't been inside it, the cost of one night's stay was two hundred dollars for the cheap rooms, and more than three thousand dollars for the expensive rooms. Before stumbling on the dwarf gold, he'd never imagined seeing that much cash, let alone having it.
Volgelson's troops deployed the moment the cars pulled up to the entryway, startling the doormen on duty and frightening several well-appointed people as they stood gapi