Knights of the Wizard (of Knights and Wizards Book 2) by A. J. Gallant Page A

Marcus, placing his hand gently on the boy’s shoulder for comfort. He smiled up at the knight as Brother looked down at him. If he really needed a wand to create his enchantments then it wasn’t his fault that he wasn’t up to the required standard and that made him feel better. Why hadn’t Adorok known about such a thing?
    Ryxa looked back at Marcus who shrugged and when she looked inside the cavern a bee flew into her nose making her sneeze, the orb bounced off the cave and into her mouth, sliding down her throat. “Oh oh.” It felt warm and tingly in her stomach.
    Tavarot and Raina carried the tome out of the cave; the book itself was glowing as were the red letters with yellow symbols that Raina didn’t recognize. The book was the full length of her arm and quite heavy; they set it gently on the ground as Tavarot looked around for his orb. “Where’s my orb? I set it down right here. You don’t want to be fooling with that thing.” He looked over at Marcus who hadn’t moved. “Dragon?”
    At first Ryxa shrugged but then realizing how important it might be to the boy she admitted what happened. “I ah sneezed, it bounced and I swallowed it.”
    “Good gosh man, I mean dragon! Stand up straight and let me see your stomach.” Tavarot looked under the dragon and could see the white glow emanating from Ryxa. “Hold your mouth open.”
    Ryxa opened her mouth and watched as Tavarot gestured with his right hand and the orb made its way out of the dragon’s stomach and onto his hand, replete with hot stomach acid and other sludge. He wiped it on his robe which burned a large hole in it. He was not impressed.
    “Good god what have you been eating dragon? No humans I hope.” said Tavarot.
    Ryxa shook her head. “Most dragons don’t eat humans, although in anger I suppose they might, you know if we were attacked but it would be for revenge not nourishment. But then again maybe some dragons might have a taste for humans. Everyone’s different so who can say for certain? I know from experience a few dragons that are quite cantankerous.”
    He had never been so close to a dragon and didn’t realize that they were so talkative; then again perhaps it was just this one. “That’ll suffice Dragon. I don’t need a history lesson.”
    “So the book will tell us where Marcus can find a wand?” Raina asked.
    Tavarot opened the book to roughly the middle and placed the orb on it. “Not just any old wand Raina; he has to find his wand.”
    Raina looked puzzled. “But he didn’t even know such a thing existed until you told him.”
    Tavarot cracked his back. “It’s like this girl, when such a potent sorcerer is created so is his wand, usually inside a tree from what I’ve read. How difficult it will be for the boy to locate that specific tree I cannot say. Some say that a wand cannot be found until one is ready for it but people spew a lot of gobbledygook so who knows.”
    It all sounded confusing to the girl and even more so to Marcus. “How will he get the wand out of the tree?”
    Marcus tried to imagine it. “How did my wand get inside a tree? Who put it in there?”
    “It’s a magical thing boy, when you were born so was the wand created.” Tavarot picked up the orb and held it to his forehead. “You’ll have to cut it out.”
    Raina thought about that. “So the wand really isn’t inside the tree, he has to carve it out of the tree?”
    Marcus looked up at Brother. “How could the wand have been put inside a tree when I was born? I wasn’t even a wizard then.”
    The golden knight shrugged, the sound of metal rubbing against metal.
    Tavarot shook his head. “No it really is inside the tree. Now hush girl while I concentrate.”
    She watched as the orb now looked as if it had clouds inside it, floating from his forehead back over to the tome it set itself down in the middle of the page as everyone watched curiously. It spun as it went through what must have been a hundred pages, and then