Feng, once indentured to the university in return for her studies, accompanies the Professor who bought her debt to the mountains. There, they expect to find a rare and tragic treasure: a dead dragon.

This is Part 2 of "Dragonsworn" by L. Chan, the first novelette that khōréō has published.

Content warnings: War, violence, death, animal death

Copyright khōréō magazine 2023. Story by L. Chan, edited by Rowan Morrison. Audio edition read by Shushu Huang and produced by Lian Xia Rose, with casting by Jenelle DeCosta.

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Music: This Too Shall Pass by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported CC BY 3.0