Dragon Haven. Робин Хобб

      

      ROBIN HOBB

       Dragon Haven

Copyright

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      This novel is entirely a work of fiction.

      The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007376094

      Ebook Edition © OCTOBER 2014 ISBN: 9780007353200

      Version: 2017-08-09

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Prologue

Chapter One: Suspicions

Chapter Two: Tricky Currents

Chapter Three: First Kill

Chapter Four: Blue Ink, Black Rain

       Chapter Five: White Flood

       Chapter Six: Decision Point

       Chapter Seven: Rescue

       Chapter Eight: Horns

       Chapter Nine: Discoveries

       Chapter Ten: Confessions

       Chapter Eleven: Revelations

       Chapter Twelve: The Locket

       Chapter Thirteen: Decision Point

       Chapter Fourteen: Divergence

       Chapter Fifteen: Tarman

       Chapter Sixteen: Reeds

       Chapter Seventeen: Changes

       Chapter Eighteen: Gone Astray

       Chapter Nineteen: Mud and Wings

       Chapter Twenty: Kelsingra

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       Day the 5th of the Prayer Moon

       Year the 6th of the Independent Alliance of Traders

       From Erek, Keeper of the Birds, Bingtown to Detozi, Keeper of the Birds, Trehaug

       A message from Trader Jurden to be delivered to the Trehaug Rain Wild Traders’ Council, regarding an order for Sevirian cutlery and the unfortunate shortage that has caused an unexpected and substantial increase in the price for it.

       Detozi,

       Greetings! The king pigeons have proven disappointing for speed and homing ability, but their swift breeding habits and quick growth to size make me wonder if there is an opportunity to create a supply of food birds that might be especially suitable to raising in the Rain Wilds. Your thoughts on this?

       Erek

PROLOGUE

      The humans were agitated. Sintara sensed their darting, stinging thoughts, as annoying as a swarm of biting insects. The dragon wondered how humans had ever managed to survive when they could not keep their thoughts to themselves. The irony was that despite spraying out every fancy that passed through their small minds, they didn’t have the strength of intellect to sense what their fellows were thinking. They tottered through their brief lives, misunderstanding one another and almost