EARTHLY DRAGON, SOARING PALM by Derek Dorris

Author:Derek Dorris [Dorris, Derek]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-07T07:00:00+00:00

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The three headed towards the next village which was some distance away without horses. They had been walking for hours and their legs were beginning to feel tired. “We're not going to make the next town anytime soon,” Bai Feng said while stifling a yawn. “We better we rest up at some point.”

Soon after, they stopped at the roadside to eat. Tu Ling took out some cold dim sum and divided them among the three. Bai Feng noticed the delicate way that she ate and reprimanded himself for ever believing she was a boy—no matter how good her disguise.Watching her titillated him with feelings that he never experienced before. He had grown up isolated on Earthly Mountain and was ignorant of women and the effect they would have on him. Now in the presence of one—and a particularly beautiful one at that—he realised they were exciting to be around. Not the same excitement you get from practicing kung fu or fighting, he thought. This was even more pleasant.

Though inexperienced in the ways of talking to women, Bai Feng was nonetheless highly disciplined in his thinking so he maintained a tight grip on his behaviour and for the most part remained impenetrable to Tu Ling’s keen insights. This bothered the usually young woman. She was unaccustomed to the kind of ambivalent responses she seemed to elicit from this young hero. In one moment, he was flippant, childish, and eager to fool around with his old friend. In the next, he seemed unusually attentive to her behaviour like for instance when she was combing her hair or like right now when she was eating. And then in the next moment, he would be serious, surveying his environment like a dangerous bird of prey. It was like he could adapt to the tone and atmosphere of his ever-changing surroundings with an instinctive grace—untouched by rumination or the silly concerns of daily life.

“From whom did you learn kung fu?” she asked after they finished eating, eager to learn as much about this person as possible. “Are you a student of First Brother’s? I remember you being quite prodigious as a young boy. I can only assume you've been under the tutelage of a true master like him.”

Bai Feng began to answer but he was interrupted by the Old Fool, whose mouth was proving to be as quick as his hands and feet. “I haven't taught him anything. We've only recently become friends. Naturally, he'll improve even more under my guidance though, I must say, I'm surprised by his qualities too. Yes Brother, from whom did you learn kung fu? It wasn't the Old Wanderer, was it?”

Bai Feng didn't purposefully marginalise Liao Quan from the conversation yet, unconsciously, he turned towards Tu Ling as if he were addressing her solely in his answer. “My masters belong to an unusual sect far from here. I spent the last ten years under their guidance.”

Like all Earthly Dragon masters, Bai Feng was disinclined to tell people exactly where he studied.

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