He captures they with the help of the villagers, and Danzi and Ping are put in a cage. They soon encounter a village, and are about to stay overnight, when they see Diao again, and this time, he sees them. While they were there, Ping overheard a conversation between Danzi and Wang Cao, in which Danzi insists that Ping is a Dragon Keeper. Ping and Danzi are forced to leave early, however, because Ping spots Diao in the marketplace. They finally reach the China's capital, Chang'an, and they meet up with an old friend of Danzi's, a herbalist named Wang Cao. Danzi, Ping, and the strange 'Dragon Stone' (which is really a dragon egg, a fact that Ping doesn't know) are on their way to a mysterious land called Ocean, but encounter Diao many times as he tries to kill Danzi and take the dragon stone at some point throughout their encounters with Diao, Ping and Danzi find out that the emperor has died. Ping starts to take care of the dragon better, but then the emperor makes an unexpected visit, in which he wants to sell his dragons to a dragon hunter (Diao) but then finds out there are no longer 12 dragons, but only 1, Master Lan blames Ping, and she escapes. Master Lan needs to destroy evidence of the dragons death so he pickles it, sells its organs and burns its remains. One day, Ping was taking food to the dragons and then one dragon began to roar, she finds out the other dragon is dead. While she feels comfortable around most of the animals, there are two dragons down in a pit that she is wary of them. She works by feeding the animals around the gardens. The story begins with Ping, and orphan slave girl, working for a cruel man named Master Lan. It is set in 141 B.C.E, in the Han dynasty. It is followed by Garden of the Purple Dragon, and takes place after the events in Dragon Dawn. Mindy Mejia's gripping debut novel highlights the perils of captivity and the astonishing ways in which animals evolve.Dragon Keeper is the first book in the Dragon keeper series, published in 2003.
And as she fights to save the animal she loves from the consequences of its own miracle, she must learn to accept that in nature, as in life, not everything can be controlled. Finally forced to deal with the very people she has avoided for so long, Meg discovers that opening herself up comes with its own complications. Jata has produced viable eggs-without ever having had a mate.įaced with this rare phenomenon, Meg must now defend Jata's hatchlings from the scientific, religious, and media forces that converge on the zoo to claim the miracle as their own. Then one day, Meg makes an amazing discovery.
Meg has always been better able to relate to reptiles than to people, from her estranged father to her live-in boyfriend to the veterinarian who is more concerned with his career than with the animals' lives. A species that became endangered soon after being discovered, Komodos have a legacy of independence, something that Meg understands all too well. Jata brings the exotic to Meg's Minnesotan life: an ancient, predatory history and stories of escaping to freedom. Meg Yancy knows she may be overly attached to Jata, the Komodo dragon that has been in her care since it arrived at the zoo from Indonesia. A zookeeper fights to save the animal she loves, even as her own life crumbles around her.
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