Tiger's Voyage: Tiger Curse: Book Three by Colleen Houck

Author:Colleen Houck [Houck, Colleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General
ISBN: 9781444736236
Google: t9B8AiO7fbwC
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2011-11-10T20:26:03+00:00

I slept for a long, long time. Kishan was gone when I awoke. The hot water of the shower hurt as it hit my bumped and bruised skin. I briefly wondered why I wasn’t healing as fast here as I did in the other realms. I suspected that powering up that star drained me so completely that it was difficult for my body to catch up. I made a mental note to ask Mr. Kadam about it later.

Starving, I entered the wheelhouse, and a kind Nilima made me breakfast even though it was way past dinnertime. I sipped apple juice and carried my plate to the desk where everyone was working. The boys looked well-rested, but Mr. Kadam didn’t.

I had the Golden Fruit make Mr. Kadam a cup of his favorite orange blossom tea before I sat in a chair to eat my cream-cheese-and-strawberry-stuffed french toast. He winked at me gratefully and sipped from the cup before stretching out his bent back.

I accused, “You’ve been working all night, er, day, haven’t you?”

Mr. Kadam nodded and picked up his tea.

“When did you last eat?”

He shrugged, so I asked the Golden Fruit to make a hot blueberry scone with butter and honey to go with his tea. He smiled appreciatively and took a seat next to me. Ren and Kishan moved closer to the chart they’d been staring at, bumped heads, and growled at each other. I smiled and turned to Mr. Kadam.

“So what have you discovered? We’re moving again, aren’t we?”

“Yes.”

“How is that possible? Are we moving under our own power?”

“The satellite and some of our other instruments are still not functional but the engine has come back on, though that doesn’t help us much if we don’t know where we are. That’s where this comes in.”

He reached over and handed me a small book from the table. I flipped through the pages and saw columns of Chinese writing. “What’s this?”

“It’s, for lack of a better term, a dragon almanac.”

“Where did you get it?”

“I found it in a hidden compartment under the sextant. I’ve been translating it.”

Kishan moved to the wheel and made some adjustments.

“We now know the latitude and longitude of the next dragon. This very unusual sextant allows me to plot our course. All I have to do is look through the eyepiece and find the star of the next dragon. Our next scaly friend is the blue one. Once the star is in view, the sextant whirs and clicks, almost like a compass. It shifts and gives a longitude and latitude. It also tells how many hours it will take us to arrive, depending on our speed.”

“Then what do you use the almanac for?”

“The almanac tells where to find the star.”

“I see. So when do you expect to arrive at the blue dragon’s lair?”

“At our present speed and if the weather holds … around 8:00 a.m.”

Mr. Kadam picked up a notebook and a pen, and we spent an hour talking about the red dragon and its diamond palace. He’d already gleaned the details from Kishan and Ren but he wanted my version too.

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