"But I am willing," Tharkay gave his faint half-smile, "and more likely to come back whole from it than anyone else here." "Tharkay," Laurence said, "this is no service you owe us I would not order even a man under oath of arms to undertake it, without he were willing." "If I may," Tharkay said quietly, interrupting when Laurence would have remonstrated further with Granby, "I will go alone I am reasonably sure I can find a way to the eggs, without rousing any alarm, and then I can return and guide the rest of the party there." It isn't only your own but the Corps' affair if you snuff it, and mine too." "I have bit my tongue a dozen times over, because I know it is wretched hard to sit about watching and you haven't been trained up to it, but you are a captain, and you must be more careful of your neck. Granby, you overstate the case, and you overstep your bounds." "Temeraire, this is plain exaggeration," Laurence said. "If the party are sure to be killed, I am not going to let anyone go!" Temeraire said, in high alarm, and sat up sharp, quite prepared to physically hold anyone back who made an attempt to leave.
Temeraire, you are not to let him go, do you hear me? He is sure to be killed I give you my word." I am not going back to England to tell them I sat about twiddling my thumbs whilst you got yourself cut to pieces. Send you off to go scrambling about in that warren with no notion where you are going, and nothing more likely than running into a dozen guards round every corner I should like to see myself do it. "No, this time I damned well put my foot down, Laurence. "Oh, the devil you will!" Granby exclaimed furiously. She wants to destroy Temeraire by stripping him of all that he holds dear, and being a celestial dragon, she has the power and intelligence to carry out her terrible threat.“I think we must only a few of us go," Laurence said, low.
And even before they leave, they discover that Lien has left China before them, intent upon revenge. They will have to scale mountains and cross deserts, evade Napoleon's aggressive infantry and hide from unpredictable feral dragons. But the overland flight is fraught with danger. Instead they must take the shorter route to rendevous by the English Channel, and stopping in Istanbul to collect three dragon eggs which the government have purchased at great expense from the Turkish. With the Chinese threat neatly dissolved, Temeraire is free to return to Britain and continue to help his friends defend their country.īut before they board the ship, Laurence - now a member of the Chinese Imperial family by adoption - recieves orders from the British Air Corps that he and Temeraire are not to sail with the British forces. Print Black Powder War (Temeraire - Book 3)
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