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Damar Series #2
Puffin Books
October 2000
On Sale: October 2, 2000
Featuring: Aerin
246 pages ISBN: 0141309814 EAN: 9780141309811 Kindle: B00OGWASFU Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
In Robin McKinleyβs Newberry Medalβwinning novel, an outcast princess must earn her birthright as a hero of the realm
Aerin is an outcast in her own fatherβs court, daughter of the foreign woman who, it was rumored, was a witch, and enchanted the king to marry her.
She makes friends with her fatherβs lame, retired warhorse, Talat, and discovers an old, overlooked, and dangerously imprecise recipe for dragon-fire-proof ointment in a dusty corner of her fatherβs library. Two years, many canter circles to the left to strengthen Talatβs weak leg, and many burnt twigs (and a few fingers) secretly experimenting with the ointment recipe later, Aerin is present when someone comes from an outlying village to report a marauding dragon to the king. Aerin slips off alone to fetch her horse, her sword, and her fireproof ointment . . .
But modern dragons, while formidable opponents fully capable of killing a human being, are small and accounted vermin. There is no honor in killing dragons. The great dragons are a tale out of ancient history.
That is, until the day that the king is riding out at the head of an army. A weary man on an exhausted horse staggers into the courtyard where the kingβs troop is assembled: βThe Black Dragon has come . . . Maur, who has not been seen for generations, the last of the great dragons, great as a mountain. Maur has awakened.β
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