Long looked down at the earth. “I will sacrifice myself for the people of earth,” he said. “I will lie on the land and transform myself into water for them to drink.” The others looked at him in astonishment, but one by one they nodded. “I will do the same,” Yellow said. “As will we,” Pearl and Black said. So Jade Dragon’s children went down to earth and turned themselves into water, saving the people on the earth. They became the four great rivers of the land, stopping the drought and death of
