The Dragon's Promise (Six Crimson Cranes, #2)

by Elizabeth Lim

Covering up my relief, I touched the tiny pearl. Even this deep in the sea, it shone like a bead of moonlight.

“Now finish your tea,” he said, lifting my cup to my lips. “It’s expensive.”

The sass is so real 💅🏽

“May our strands cross again!” he yelled as the turtle bent its legs to spring upward. “Preferably in a place with more air”—he tipped his head at Kiki—“and birds!”

I love :(

Are you really going to drink a concealment potion without asking what it’ll conceal you as? “Elang told me to.” What if you turn into a goblin shark or, worse yet, a blobfish?

Not the blob fish

It was of Takkan and me, our wrists connected by a red thread that traced all the way to the moon.

How sweet is this imagery... Also.... FORESHADOWING WHAAAT

When you look into the sea, think of me sometimes.”

I will always think of your Seryu you are so sweet and wonderful.

“Go to sleep.”

Dominant Takkan 😏 my mans UwU !!!!!

The pond still brimmed with carp, beds of lotus blossoms floating peacefully. The canopies of purple wisteria had grown long, draping over the tall trees that shaded the garden.

I love the imagery Lim creates and her brief descriptions. So nice.

“She was always protecting me.”

Stoppppp

“If I’d known you were going to be such a gossip, I would have left you in Ai’long.”

Gen is sketchy..?

“You aren’t a bird in a cage, Shiori. Neither am I. I’m coming with you.”

SLAY MY BOY

“But it’s rather selfish, don’t you think, to make me swear when you will not? I need you too, Shiori.”

Takkan best boy ever

“I will not be tied down to a barren wasteland, shipped so far north that the sun is but a pebble in the sky. Lord Bushi’an Takkan will return to Iro at once. The betrothal is no more.”

Giiiiiirl imma need you to stop right now. Truly she is being a bit meh about the whole thing. I know this demon Bandur is trying to ruin her mental state and reputation, but this is the second time she has denied Takkan of their betrothal. It makes me sad

What were you thinking? Kiki shrieked. Honestly, Shiori, I thought you’d stopped being so stupid since breaking that bowl on your head. But clearly I was wrong.

Kiki has sense

“You didn’t run out on me. You ran out with me. It’s quite different.”

Y'all this man is a freakin angel

But my love for you is far greater than pride, Shiori. Far greater than anything.”

Stopppppppp my heartttt

“I bind you to me, Bushi’an Takkan. Not because my father or my stepmother or my country asks me to do so, but because I wish to do so. I would always choose you. You are the light that makes my lantern shine.”

Okay its actually sweet :(

“Do you remember when you first met her, you called her Imurinya?” “Because she glowed,” I said. “Like the lady of the moon.” “That was the happiest I had ever seen her.”

Stop im so sad how adorable is that

They look hungry, Kiki said nervously. They’re staring at me. Maybe my paper is tasty to these Tambun serpents—I am becoming more like a real bird every day, you know.

I love Kiki's light comic relief tbh

“I’m not letting us face any more demons on empty stomachs.”

I support this. Food is love!

She watches you, her daughter, said the serpent as she too blended into the orchids. My father would have been happy to know that she found a family in the end.

I'm going to tear up... Please... All of the story about Raikama and her sister

And besides, I’d fantasized plenty of times about punching Andahai in the gut.

Not funny Shiori :'/ PLEASE LOLLL

“I was always yours. You just took a long time to see it.”

Im crying

“We are bound, remember? If you have no heart, I will give you half of mine. If you have no spirit, I will bind yours to mine.”

STOP IT

exchanged a shy smile with Takkan. “His heart is my home, and—” “—where you are is where I belong,” he said together with me.

I HATE HOW CUTE THEY ARE SO MUCH THAT I LOVE THEM :(

A trail of silvery moonlight appeared, unspooling over the star-touched folds of heaven. Down and down it led, among fields of clouds soft as freshly fallen snow.

Ugh i love this imagery so bad

“For you, I’m willing to bend a few rules.”

STOP IT I TRULY LOVE THIS MAN.

Under the shining moon, we made our way home, our hearts beaming, and the light in our lanterns as radiant as the stars.

I luv them