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By Daniel Fox

ISBN-10: 0345519116

ISBN-13: 9780345519115

During this hovering epic, Daniel Fox weaves the traditional myths and legends of feudal China right into a delusion international of brutal battle and brittle ardour, immortal gods and mystical creatures.
 
With the long-chained dragon now unfastened and the rebels’ invasion smashed by way of her exultant fury, the stability of energy has replaced. younger emperor Chien Hua is not any longer suffering for survival; now he's formidable to strike again. As treacherous basic Ping Wen whispers within the emperor’s ear, now not even Chien Hua’s loved concubine or his such a lot relied on bodyguard can cause with him. Worse, lengthy publicity to magical jade is altering him greatly: His more and more godlike powers are making him dangerously rash.

But with the dragon patrolling the skies above and the strait underneath, the emperor’s forces haven't any desire of launching a counterattack—until a goddess strikes to intrude. but neither the conflict of armies nor the opposing wills of goddess and dragon can make a decision final victory or defeat. The destiny of the struggle lies within the blood-deep bonds among the dragon and the boy Han, her jailer and her liberator—and within the costs either can pay for his or her freedom.

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Perhaps she didn’t breathe. What would an immortal need with air? No matter. Her mouth held a more immediate interest now. What she would need with food was a question too, but that didn’t stop her swallowing men. She reached her long neck down and the reek of her overswept them all, sea sludge and salt decay. He might have gagged if he hadn’t been so in thrall to the moment, and to her. Her mouth opened. Her gape was vivid and immense. She had colors in her throat if you could see that far, if you could look past the teeth and tongue.

Chung thought someone ought to tell him, but nobody would. With the emperor in the mountains, who could criticize his general? Only one name came to mind, and she was in the mountains too. He had a stone in his boot, a sharp pain in the ball of his foot. One more thing to be thankful for: that he could sit on the side of the road with his legs overhanging the ditch, shake out the stone, and then sling the boots around his neck and have done with them for now. Like the sash, his running-boots with their emphatically yellow lacings marked him out as a messenger, untouchable.

He wouldn’t say wiser, even now, but he did think he was right. ” To nobody’s surprise, it was the girl who answered. “Of course he can stand, if he needs to,” meaning I will help him if you give me reason, meaning I would rather stay here, meaning I would rather be closer to Han. All too obviously she expected him to order them away, back to the boat if they could get there, if the dragon would let them go. Even here, in a dragon’s dreadful shadow, he found a hint of pleasure in surprising her.

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