The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu

Author:Ken Liu [Liu, Ken]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Young Adult
ISBN: 9781481424271
Amazon: B00KU4O1CY
Barnesnoble: B00KU4O1CY
Goodreads: 18952341
Publisher: Saga Press
Published: 2015-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

They arrived at the port city of Canfin. Duke Garu’s new adviser, the mysterious Luan Zya, went to the docks alone while the company made camp just outside the city.

Dafiro gazed at the city walls and reflected on the strange path of his life. More than a year ago, he and his brother were headed here to board a ship bound for Pan, where they had expected whips and chains and endless toil to build Emperor Mapidéré’s Mausoleum. But they never made it to Canfin because their captains, Huno Krima and Zopa Shigin, changed their lives forever.

And here he was, finally. But where were they headed now?

The Imperial navy harassed ships up and down the Cocru coast, and there were few ships that dared running the blockade. But with enough money, people could be persuaded to attempt any kind of risk. Luan Zya showed the shipmasters at the docks a great deal of money.

Duke Garu’s men boarded three merchant ships at night. Dafiro tried to go to sleep in the dark cargo hold. The soldiers were packed in very tightly, like dried fish or bundles of cloth, and the rocking of the ship over the waves made so many men dizzy that the smell of sickness was everywhere.

Once they were at sea, they could go up to the deck to take in fresh air in shifts. Dafiro tried to guess where they were headed by looking at the sun, the moon, and the stars. There was no land in sight, so they weren’t hugging the coast. Were they headed for wild Écofi, where elephants roamed the sea of grass and much of the land was uninhabited? Was Duke Garu going to start a new settlement? Dafiro had never left the Big Island, and he wondered what he would find there.

But the sun always set to the right of the ship as they sailed ever southward.

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