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Dragon Weather
| Author: | Lawrence Watt-Evans |
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Tor, 1999 |
| Series: | The Obsidian Chronicles: Book 1 |
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| Book Type: | Novel |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Arlian had never left his home village on the Smoking Mountain. The stony ground, jagged peaks, and black glass were all he had ever known of life, and he knew deep in his heart that he would probably never leave.
Until the dragon weather came. Incredible heat, oppressive humidity, dark and angry clouds...and dragons. Dragons with no feelings, no sympathy, no use for humans; dragons who destroyed his entire village and everyone in it.
Everyone, that is, except Arlian.
Orphaned and alone, Arlian makes his way through life, obsessed with the concept of justice, determined to avenge his family and his village. But can one righteous man change the entire world for the better? Or is he doomed by his own actions to become as unjust as those he seeks to destroy?
Excerpt
Arlian stared; still on the ladder, his waist level with the pantry floor, his vision was limited. He could see a corner of the kitchen table, a burning fragment of wall, and a wedge of gray sky--and framed in that wedge he saw the dragon.
He could not judge its size accurately, but he knew it was huge. It hung there, flapping its tremendous wings. It looked black against the sky, but Arlian could not be sure that was its true color. Its eyes were the color of flame, but perhaps they merely reflected the blazing village.
Its wings swept up in a graceful, gigantic curve, then snapped down, then swept upward again, and between them hung a body as long and lithe as a snake, tail whipping and winding below. Its long neck arched elegantly.
It seemed to be staring right at Arlian.
Copyright © 1999 by Lawrence Watt-Evans
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