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"Dragonfruit" by Makiia Lucier, Chapters 1-6

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In this romantic fantasy, exile Hanalei returns home to Tamarind, and, with prince Samahtitamahenele, goes on a quest to find a seadragon egg that can heal Samahtitamahenele's mother.

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grotto
Her guide’s name was Moa, and his response came after much neck craning as they peered from high above the grotto into the watery cavern below.
furtive
He rose, casting a furtive glance at her hands and the scars that covered them.
ravenous
It would have woken ravenous.
sinuous
Hanalei sketched the green seadragon next. A long, sinuous body covered in scales, along with legs and claws, and as she finished its feathery tail, the seadragon lifted its head.
notorious
Bragadin had spent his early boyhood on the streets of Raka, plucking dragonscale in the notorious orphan workhouses before finding work on a ship, then owned by the infamous dragoner Salvega.
impenetrable
Not so far into the future, they would be used to make armor, scales overlapping, impenetrable.
fortuitous
“It was fortuitous,” the second trader said.
crass
“Don’t be crass,” the second trader said under his breath.
conciliatory
The first trader held out his hands in a conciliatory gesture, smiled.
forfeit
Whose life would be forfeit this time?
incendiary
There would be incendiaries stored beside it in a waterproof box.
invincible
“You think you’re invincible, but you go too far this time. We’ll hang for this.”
unguent
She refused to have it tended to, ignoring the unguents and lotions prepared by royal healers.
mercurial
His mood following the sinking of the Lagoon was even more mercurial than before.
cumbersome
Her satchel hung behind her, cumbersome, but she would not leave it behind in her cabin.

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