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The Search for the Red Dragon

by James A. Owen · 2008

"'The Crusade has begun'... "There's an old myth in the Archipelago," he went on softly, shaking his head. "A legend, really...I recall it mentioned a Crusade, but those events happened seven centuries ago. We always… more

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All stories are true. But some of them never happened.
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If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.
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I know,” said Peter. “Perhaps better than anyone. But you can’t stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo’s Well is to choose illusion. To choose to avoid the responsibilities of being an adult. The real trick—the real choice—is to keep the best of the child you were, without forgetting when you grow up. “It is the best of both worlds, Jack. Being a child is to believe in magic everywhere… “…but even Peter Pan had to grow up one day.
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Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again." "Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?
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Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly.
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Not many people can lay claim to having broken Time, and we did it purely by accident.
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That isn't a desperate act. That's a PLAN.
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You're a very odd man," said Bert. "I get that more often than you'd think," replied Charles.
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The Cavelries hear and their short and furrie
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"'The Crusade has begun'...

"There's an old myth in the Archipelago," he went on softly, shaking his head. "A legend, really...I recall it mentioned a Crusade, but those events happened seven centuries ago. We always thought it was only a story."

It has been nine years since John, Jack, and Charles had their great adventure in the Archipelago of Dreams and became the Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica. Now they have been brought together again to solve a Someone is kidnapping the children of the Archipelago. And their only clue is a mysterious message delivered by a strange girl with artificial "The Crusade has begun." Worse, they discover that all of the legendary Dragonships have disappeared as well.

The only chance they have to save the world from a centuries-old plot is to seek out the last of the Dragonships -- the Red Dragon -- in a spectacular journey that takes them fro

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First published
2008
Genre
Fantasy
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4.06 (5k ratings)

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