When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin

Author:Grace Lin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Adaptations, Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic, Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Asia
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2016-10-04T04:00:00+00:00

“Wait!” Yishan interrupted. “I thought the first king of the City of Bright Moonlight exiled his father.”

“He did,” Pinmei said. “He had to. When his father turned into a tiger, the first king couldn’t let him stay in the city. He was too dangerous. So his father was exiled.”

“So it was as a tiger that he was exiled?” Yishan said, scratching his head and looking up as if trying to read a lost memory in the night sky. “I guess that would make sense…”

“If you believe the story, that is,” the king interjected. “There are many parts I find doubtful.”

“But what does this have to do with the Paper?” ­Pinmei asked. “The Paper turned the first king’s father into a tiger, but that was long before the Paper was given away. How can you have it now?”

“It was my father, the former king of the City of Bright Moonlight, who gave the Paper away over sixty years ago,” the king said. “After he abdicated and became quite old, he returned to the palace with the Paper and a strange story.”

Pinmei looked at Yishan, but he did not meet her eyes. Instead, he was gazing upward. Another star was flying across the sky, making a silver scratch on the ­black-­lacquered night. Pinmei frowned and turned back to the king.

“Does it have something to do with the Green Tiger?” she asked.

“Yes,” the king said. “I suppose it could be considered a new part of the Green Tiger story.”

“A new part of the Story of the Green Tiger?” Pinmei repeated, giving Yishan a sharp nudge. He glanced at her apologetically. “I didn’t know there was a new part. Please, Your Majesty. I would like to hear the story.”

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