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336 pages, Hardcover
First published May 2, 2023
“Make your little human love you. Do what you must. And then kill it. Her gaze was unblinking. Bring us home, Everen, give us our world.”
“I was the last male dragon, born to know the past, the future, the gossamer of fate that spread in all directions like a dew-caught spiderweb.”
“Your tone was as acidic as the taste of the coffee, but you drank with obvious relish, watching the people as they passed by on the street.”
“I had been the golden son. The hope of all dragons. But the opposite of hope is despair. For with every year that passed, this world became hotter, and dragons grew hungrier. I was meant to see how to save us. Every time they look at me, they saw their own demise reflected. It all confined, like skin that would not shed.”
Kjetim-lei ak ar-dźakain,
lei-turei, iév-turo
Ar-réal vanok vaugain
śajak val jain reno.
Dźo eje loj el-dźakain
fanas arfan lo
"I wasn't sure if I was pronouncing them correctly, nor had any idea what they meant. All I could do was close my eyes and try. Usually, spells were just the odd word in the Old Tongue--only masters up at the university would know full phrases."
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--Yes, she said, as she faded from view. Make your little human love you. Do what you must. And then kill it. Her gaze was unblinking. Bring us home, Everen. Give us our world.This immediately reminded me of something I read long ago in Glory Road by Robert Heinlein,
You tickle trout by gaining their confidence, and then abusing it.(Trout tickling is a way to catch trout with ones bare hands.) So, it transpires that Cassia has sent Everen on a fishing expedition. He is to catch the human world by gaining Arcady's confidence, then betraying it. Dragons view humans as treacherous vermin, so it is plausible that Everen and Cassia would have no more compunction about betraying a human than Heinlein's hero Oscar had about betraying a trout. By the way, what I've told you so far is in the publisher's blurb, so no spoilers yet.
—So I only fly where you tell me. Hunt what I must. Kill what I must. You are the wind and starfire and quicksilver. I am nothing but the shape you make me.