the bear and the dragon bookstore near me

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I had seen a dragon whole only in my dreams, or in pictures. One assumed this was a tail section because it was so narrow. I did not know where the dragon ended or began. One coil of the dragon came through this wall and curved upward toward a similar opening in the ceiling. There was, in the kitchen of the Rainbow Cafe, a hole in one wall, about nine feet in diameter. The dragon could not, of course, be seen all in one piece. “Dragon’s Fin Soup,” an excerpt from a story by S.P. When he was done, he lay down among his treasures, his beloveds, under the mountain, and his thoughts were dragonish. Perhaps he’d seal the cave now, to be ready. It had been a long time since he climbed into the light. The flash that ran across his scales when he crawled into the light, however, was spectral: green-electric and blue-actinic, and a vermilion so sharp it could burn an afterimage in a human eye. He was pale, palest of his kin, blue-white as skimmed milk and just as translucent.

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And he too would lose the power to shine with more than reflected light before long, and all in the mother-cave would be dark and full of music. Soon he would be with them, returned to their harmony, their many-threaded round. Orm the Beautiful stretched his long neck among the glorious rubble of his kin and dozed to their songs. “Orm the Beautiful,” an excerpt from a story by Elizabeth Bear All its attention, as a cat’s is with a sparrow, was directed from the limits of its poised body, its bunched muscles, through its dazzle-yellow eyes, upon the woman before it, standing in my view like a priest between candles, between the two gleaming uprights of its projecting teeth. From its nostrils puffed an air choking in its heat and smell, and the thing did not care that we could not breathe it, we courtiers, we watchers. Its mouth could not contain all its mass of teeth, but two of them must needle upward and another two down, outside its lips of glinting mail. Spiked head to tail-tip, was the beast, with knife-blades become spines, and its claws were of the same sharpness. “The Miracle Aquilina,” an excerpt from a story by Margo LanaganĬompleted, the creature described a great hunched curve, nearly to my eye-level on the high platform all men were dolls beside it, and the shepherdess was the smallest doll of all. Its teeth were icicles, a triple row of them, jagged spears of unequal length, white against its deep blue maw. Adara could see the clouds through them, and oftentimes the moon and stars, when the beast wheeled in frozen circles through the skies. Its wings were vast and batlike, colored all a faint translucent blue.

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It was covered with hoarfrost, so when it moved its skin broke and crackled as the crust on the snow crackles beneath a man’s boots, and flakes of rime fell off. The ice dragon was a crystalline white, that shade of white that is so hard and cold that it is almost blue. Hal’s dragon was big enough, to be sure, five times the size of a horse, but it was small compared to the ice dragon, and ugly besides.

Adara had heard legends of wild dragons larger than mountains, but she had never seen any.

The ice dragon was large, half again the size of the scaled green war dragons that Hal and his fellows flew. “The Ice Dragon,” an excerpt from a story by George R. ” He was silent a while, and then went on, “And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles and I would be content.” “There is a desire in you,” said Sparrowhawk, “to see dragons.” Yet they said Bar Oth was a young dragon, not full grown.”

It is heavy as iron, and so large that if it were spread out it would cover all the marketplace of Serilune, they said. No dragons have ever come to Enlad since that day. “In Serilune,” said Arren, “is the skin of Bar Oth, killed by Keor Prince of Enlad three hundred years ago. In studying them, what seems the same and what is different? Which approaches are more or less immediately compelling, and why? How would your own approach differ?Įxcerpt from the novel The Farthest Shore by Ursula K Le Guin Did we say three examples of dragon description in Wonderbook? We meant more than that, surely? Below find juxtaposed several different approaches by some of our finest writers.