The Dragon’s Promise by Elizabeth Lim EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Elizabeth Lim
- Language: English
- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Asian Geography & Cultures Fiction eBooks
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The bottom of the Taijin Sea tasted of salt, slime, and disappointment. But
for a few faint beams of mysterious light, it was darker than the deepest
chasm. Hardly the magnificent watery realm dragons were said to call
home.
I sat up on Seryu’s back as he slowed, his long whiskers vibrating
toward one beam in particular. Maybe I’d imagined it, but the beam shone
brighter than the rest—almost violet.
“You ready?” Seryu asked.
Ready for what? I thought, but I nodded.
With a flip of his tail, he dove through the violet beam—and everything
changed.
The water turned azure, and puffs of coppery mist hissed from beds of
sand and crystal. And light! There was light everywhere, radiating from an
unseen sun.
My heart began to race with anticipation, and I clung to Seryu’s horns
as he accelerated down, swimming so fast that I almost let go of my breath.
We’re almost there, Kiki, I thought excitedly in our shared, unspoken
language, but she didn’t respond. A peek into my sleeve told me why: my
poor paper bird had fainted.
I didn’t blame her. We were moving at dizzying speeds, and my head
pounded like a storm when I tried to see straight. But I couldn’t afford to
faint. I didn’t even dare close my eyes.
I wanted to see everything.
At last we arrived at a labyrinth of bright coral reefs, fathoms below the
mortal sea. Seagrass swayed in an unseen current, dunes of white sand and
gold-veined rocks dotted the grounds, and canopies of braided seaflowers
formed the roofs of underwater villas.
So this was Ai’long, home of the dragons.
It was a world few mortals would ever glimpse. At a glance, it didn’t
seem so different from land. In place of trees were pillars of coral, some
slender and some thick, most with spiraling branches adorned with bracelets
of moss. Even the way the fish glided, their tapered fins spread out like
wings, reminded me of birds soaring across the sky.
And yet…it was like nothing I’d ever seen. The movement of the water,
constantly tossing and turning, was revealed by flashes of color and flurries
of fish. The way the seagrass tickled the fish that swept by, as if they could
speak to one another.
Seryu smirked as I drank in the view. “I told you you’d be dazzled.”
He was right, of course. I was dazzled. Then again, Ai’long was meant
to astound mortal eyes such as mine. That was its danger, after all. Its trap.
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