It is said that eight months later, Kaidan returned to the Eastern Kingdom with the Lightning and an army of Nine Thousand warriors of all races—cat, dog and monkey. It was led by a Shogun-General in blood-red armour and a new Khan from the Lower Kingdom with his feline wife. They met in Lha’Lhasa where all life begins to talk with the Rising Suns about the coming of Ancestors and what that might mean for the Kingdoms of the World.
These are the things that are said and more than this, these are the stories that are sung for they were written in the Year of peace and tranquility. They were written in the Year of the Cat. Other stories were written, other songs sung, but those belong in another book, The Art of War: A Book of Blood and Bones written, naturally, in the Year of the Dragon.
To be continued in
Bones in the Year of the Dragon
Be sure to read the First Two Tails in the Upper Kingdom:
TO JOURNEY IN THE YEAR OF THE TIGER
TO WALK IN THE WAY OF LIONS
By H. Leighton Dickson
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
H. Leighton Dickson grew up in the wilds of the Canadian Shield, where her neighbours were wolves, moose, perennial-eating deer and the occasional lynx. She studied Zoology at the University of Guelph and worked in the Edinburgh Zoological Gardens in Scotland, where she was chased by lions, wrestled deaf tigers and fed antibiotics to Polar Bears by baby bottle! She has been writing since she was thirteen, has three dogs, two cats, one horse, three kids and one husband. She has managed to keep all of them alive so far. She is represented by Literary Agent Jennifer Udden of Donald Maass Agency, New York and is currently at work on COLD STONE & IVY, a Gothic thriller.
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