They do more training.
A french dragon shows up and it amkes Temeraire jealous. Or maybe insecure is a better word.
There's word that some dragons have been taken and they need to take the place of the crew that's going to save them
Ch 9.pg 232
They are on the move and are attacked. Lilly is injured quite severely.
They settle into Dover where everyone's wounds are tended to. Its a little scary when Lilly isn't eating. But she recovers enough to start eating and that's a good sign.
One of Will's crew is a 10 year old girl. She asks for leave. Pretty much everyone that has asked for leave because they want to visit the ladies of the night in Dover and so Will says no.
Turns out she's another captain's daughter. Another lady. She spends the day with her mom and then at night Will and the lady talk about how since dragons live so much longer than people its best that the captains have children their dragons can have a relationship with so its easy to inherit the captainship of the dragon. She suggests she'd be up for it but she's too busy. She suggests maybe he and captain Harcore pop out a couple of kids.
Ch 10 pg 257
Will takes some mail to the navy blockade. He finds the general stuffiness and holding to propriety, stuff he used to treasure ad a Navy captain. now to be a real bore.
Temeraire gets to do some fishing and he still loves it. But maybe next time they should take off his rigging as he makes a real mess of it.
The airforce Admiral is real worried about the state of things and what Napoleon might have up his sleeve. He intends on taking some aggressive action to get to the bottom of things once Lilly has recovered.
Will and Temeraire are to be training to lead a small triforce. Seems like the Admiral intends to spread the local airforce a little thin so he can send out some serious firepower to France.
Will and lady captain do it.
Ch 11 pg 275
French captain has decided Napoleon is going to win the war and betrays them. His plan is to abduct Harcourt and Lilly in the hopes bringing back an extra dragon will result in forgiveness.
Turns out his real orders were to kill Temeraire. His egg was a gift to napoleon from the Chinese.
The reason the French captain was so certain was because the French fleet attacks the British blockade. Unfortunately for them, the Brotish defense is solid and despite being outnumbered, the French fleet is beaten and as such we are no longer expecting a French invasion.
Ch 13 pg 301
Turns out the invasion is still on. The French have troop carriers that the dragons can carry across the English channel.
On page 330 Temeraire realizes he has super powers and uses his super breath to shoot down a transport.
The French end up retreating.
Epilogue pg 333
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