![]() He teaches her how to use Chi to manipulate objects without actually touching them. ![]() Ping learns that she can understand the dragon's language, and during her adventures with the creature, Danzi begins to teach her about what gives dragons their mystic powers. Now no longer able to return to her home at Huangling, Ping finds herself on the run from the Imperial Army and the dragon hunter, who will stop at nothing to kill the dragon who calls himself Danzi. ![]() To make things worse for Ping, the emperor is accidentally poisoned during his dinner at the palace, and she is blamed for his death. She succeeds in getting away with the great creature, bringing with her a mysterious stone that the dragon had been protecting in its cave. Ping learns about the dragon hunter and attempts to help the last surviving dragon escape. When the emperor arrives in Huangling, he brings with him a dragon hunter, who wants to kill the dragons for sport, and to sell their organs as medicine. He fears that he will be punished for failing in his duties to care for the dragons, and hopes that the emperor won't ask about them. The current dragon keeper pays the death no mind, until he learns that the new emperor is coming to visit Huangling Palace. Both of them seem to be dying, and one day, one of them does. Kept in a cave in Huangling Mountain are a pair of Imperial Dragons, the last two left alive, but there is a problem. Along with Hua's antics, Ping has two other creatures that distract her from her otherwise boring life as a slave. He spends a lot of his time hiding in Ping's robes to keep out of sight, sometimes showing up at the most inopportune of moments. She has one friend, a rat named Hua, who is sort of like this story's R2-D2, an eccentric little fellow who always gets himself into trouble in the most comedic of ways. (She cleans up after pigs goats and cattle, sounds like fun, right?) Well, things aren't completely dull. Life is pretty miserable for her as she cleans up after her master, struggles to find food, and does more chores in a day than most children would normally do in two weeks. She ends up becoming the slave of the current dragon keeper, a very messy and overly demanding man who amuses himself by throwing things at our heroine. Apparently not even she knows how old she is because she was abandoned by her parents as a small child. Ping is a slave girl who is probably around twelve years old. He had them banished to a far away mountain called Huangling. Carole Wilkinson's Dragon Keeper is the first book in a series of children's fantasy novels set in ancient China, centering around a young girl named Ping as she learns to be come a dragon keeper, a special caretaker of the Imperial Dragons, which are now all but extinct thanks to the actions of an emperor who was bitten by one of the creatures as a child. Today I'm going to talk about a book I read as a youngster and recently revisited, only now realizing how good of a story it actually was. ![]() I don't do an exact number of these sketches every week, so I guess I'll just post the ones I do over the course of the week every Thursday The rough sketches I do while the teacher isn't looking, are little glimpses into the stories and worlds that I'm always coming up with. Like any student in every school in the history of schools, I like to draw in my maths notebook rather than work actual math problems. Anyway, despite the fact that I'm no Gustave Dore, I still like to practice sketching as much as I can. When I really try-and I mean really try, I can usually produce something pretty interesting, meaning that I can get a basic idea across to my audience, which I guess is the whole point of art in the first place. The reason why I doubt that I've chosen the right degree is mostly because my artistic skills aren't exactly top rate. Now I'm studying Graphic Design and Media as of right now, I say that because my current major is always subject to change. Okay, so I'm in school, which means that I'm bored.
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