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"Dragonfruit" by Makiia Lucier, Chapters 13-19

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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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illustrious
It was an illustrious gathering of elders, the mothers and fathers of those down by the shore.
shrewd
The queen’s smile was pleasant, but her eyes were shrewd.
consternation
With consternation, he saw his cousin Jejomar running in the opposite direction, toward tree cover.
imperiously
Her words, so imperiously spoken, drew dozens closer.
dawn
Sam looked surprised, then understanding dawned.
constrict
Hanalei felt her throat constrict at the number.
succumb
Hanalei looked away, thinking of her own mother, who had died too young to leave behind a memory for her only child, having succumbed to malaria before Hanalei had taken her first steps.
berate
Keeper Catamara stood off to one side, berated by a young man wearing official-looking tapa robes.
charlatan
Captain Bragadin. That charlatan. What crime hadn’t he committed?
vindictive
That mean, vindictive man. She should have left him in the dragon.
aversion
Fetu, perhaps remembering his aunt’s aversion to bats, vanished beneath Sam’s shirt.
distraught
“I’m alone and can’t do without him. I know you’ll see that finding other lodging is impossible. I’m too distraught.”
jostle
Hanalei perched on the edge of the bed, careful not to jostle, and took Princess Oliana’s hand in hers.
dubious
You have been gone from Tamarind ten years. More years than you lived here, I might add, and in the company of a man of dubious reputation.
gullible
Then one day you fall from his ship into Tamarindi waters, and are conveniently saved by a handsome, gullible prince.

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