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Empire of Ivory
By

Naomi Novik


Contents

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17



To Francesca,
may we always flee lions together
Chapter 1




SEND UP ANOTHER, damn you, send them all up, at once if you have to,тАЭ Laurence said savagely to
poor Calloway, who did not deserve to be sworn at: the gunner was firing off the flares so quickly his
hands were scorched black, skin cracking and peeling to bright red where some powder had spilled onto
his fingers; he was not stopping to wipe them clean before setting each flare to the match.

One of the little French dragons darted in again, slashing at TemeraireтАЩs side, and five men fell screaming
as a piece of the makeshift carrying-harness unraveled. They vanished at once beyond the lantern-light
and were swallowed up in the dark; the long twisted rope of striped silk, a pillaged curtain, unfurled