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PhoenixWench
Oct 7, 2012, 6:56:13 PM10/7/12
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I was recommended to present my puzzle here after the fine folks at
alt.callahans could not come up with an answer.
For whatever reason a book I read over 10 years ago has been on my mind
recently, and I want to read it again, and, naturally, cannot remember
either the title or author. However, the story is sufficiently unusual
that I'm hoping someone here can help. Google has not been my friend on this
The story involves a woman who unwillingly strikes a deal with a dragon
to heal a grievous injury. I cannot recall now if the wound was caused
by her or a man, but it was caused by someone trying to kill it - it was
not an accidental injury. In any case she agrees to do it - at great
peril to her own life and limb, as the dragon is covered in scales which
are almost like obsidian - black, hard and exceedingly sharp. Plus the
healing process is painful - any patient will get cranky when in pain,
and dragons are not long on patience as patients.
In the course of the convalescence the two spend a lot of time getting
to know each other and the truce turns to friendship of a sort. She is
menopausal and hates her body for failing her - hot flashes etc. The
dragon offers her an amazing opportunity - to actually become a dragon
for a time. Her life among the dragons is what I most want to re-read.
The story is not recognizably Earth IIRC, but my recall of the locale
details are poor beyond the cave where the healing happened.
Does this ring a bell or two???
--
PhoenixWench
Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance but the counterfeit of it.
Both are despotisms: the one assumes to itself the right of withholding
liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.
-- Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man
My fellow citizens, we live in a great nation. It's occasional
resemblance to a
lunatic asylum is purely coincidental and doubtlessly not the intention
of the author of us all.
- Molly Ivins, 1944 - 2007
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Napoleon Hill, 1883 - 1970
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alt.callahans could not come up with an answer.
For whatever reason a book I read over 10 years ago has been on my mind
recently, and I want to read it again, and, naturally, cannot remember
either the title or author. However, the story is sufficiently unusual
that I'm hoping someone here can help. Google has not been my friend on this
The story involves a woman who unwillingly strikes a deal with a dragon
to heal a grievous injury. I cannot recall now if the wound was caused
by her or a man, but it was caused by someone trying to kill it - it was
not an accidental injury. In any case she agrees to do it - at great
peril to her own life and limb, as the dragon is covered in scales which
are almost like obsidian - black, hard and exceedingly sharp. Plus the
healing process is painful - any patient will get cranky when in pain,
and dragons are not long on patience as patients.
In the course of the convalescence the two spend a lot of time getting
to know each other and the truce turns to friendship of a sort. She is
menopausal and hates her body for failing her - hot flashes etc. The
dragon offers her an amazing opportunity - to actually become a dragon
for a time. Her life among the dragons is what I most want to re-read.
The story is not recognizably Earth IIRC, but my recall of the locale
details are poor beyond the cave where the healing happened.
Does this ring a bell or two???
--
PhoenixWench
Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance but the counterfeit of it.
Both are despotisms: the one assumes to itself the right of withholding
liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.
-- Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man
My fellow citizens, we live in a great nation. It's occasional
resemblance to a
lunatic asylum is purely coincidental and doubtlessly not the intention
of the author of us all.
- Molly Ivins, 1944 - 2007
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Napoleon Hill, 1883 - 1970
http://www.flickr.com/photos/phoenixwench/
http://community.webshots.com/user/Slywlf
http://slywlf.livejournal.com/
http://phoenixwench.tumblr.com/
http://www.appletreemotelcatskills.com
http://slywlf-movealongnothingtoseehere.blogspot.com/
No Name
Oct 7, 2012, 7:16:47 PM10/7/12
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Barbara Hambly's "Dragonsbane"?
On Sun, 07 Oct 2012 18:56:13 -0400, PhoenixWench <slyw...@hvc.rr.com>
wrote:
On Sun, 07 Oct 2012 18:56:13 -0400, PhoenixWench <slyw...@hvc.rr.com>
wrote:
PhoenixWench
Oct 7, 2012, 9:52:01 PM10/7/12
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looked it up - but yes - this is the one! Now I can get it through my
library system (I hope) - or, if that fails, off to Abes ;-)
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