Taruca

Taruca

Notes for writing the article:
from *Crucible of Gold*

*“Oh,” Palta said, staring around the camp. “Oh; so many! Are they all yours?” He was asking Kulingile, even though Kulingile did not understand him and could not say a word back. Temeraire snorted. “They are ours,” he said, “although not properly the sailors: they are only along because we would not leave them to drown, and ought to be more grateful for it than they are. Laurence,” he said, turning, “this is Palta, and that man is called Taruca: Iskierka snatched him, and I cannot find she asked him in the least.”* Novik, Naomi. Crucible of Gold: A Novel of Temeraire (p. 148). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

*...although they brought with them fresh cause for dismay in the person of Taruca, and Iskierka was at once unrepentant and unable to say just where she had snatched him.* Novik, Naomi. Crucible of Gold: A Novel of Temeraire (p. 149). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

*“He was alone, anyway,” she said, “only sitting in the sun near an old empty house, and he did not even try to run away when I landed and picked him up.” “Oh, Lord,” Granby said despairingly. “Of course he didn’t, you lunatic beast: he is stone blind.”* Novik, Naomi. Crucible of Gold: A Novel of Temeraire (p. 149). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

*When at last the offer was conveyed and understood Taruca said, doubtfully, “Would you—you would take me home, to my children? They are in the ayllu of Curicuillor, at Titicaca—you will take me back to them?”*Novik, Naomi. Crucible of Gold: A Novel of Temeraire (p. 150). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

*“we may ask the governor what to do: Palta says his name is Hualpa Uturuncu, and he lives in a city called Talcahuano.”* Novik, Naomi. Crucible of Gold: A Novel of Temeraire (p. 152). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Cuarla, solid Green.
*The newcomer, a dragon called Cuarla, having bobbed his head to Governor Hualpa, proceeded to identify himself as Taruca’s injured owner.*Novik, Naomi. Crucible of Gold: A Novel of Temeraire (p. 158). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
*him, Cuarla puffed all his scales out so as to make himself nearly twice his size—which still left him somewhat less than a quarter of Iskierka’s.*Novik, Naomi. Crucible of Gold: A Novel of Temeraire (p. 159). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

*“I am grateful; but I have been stolen fourteen times, since this,” Taruca said, touching his scarred face, when the question had been put to him. “But if Inti wills it, I will be glad to go home; if you can take me.”*Novik, Naomi. Crucible of Gold: A Novel of Temeraire (p. 173). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Laurence et al, learn about how it came about that there were so few humans. Before few ayllu's had a dragon join them and it became a great honor when one did. But then the plagues came and a great many humans died. *...nearly all the chiefs of all the ayllus are dragons. And they are grown anxious, and do not like us to go anywhere; and rightly when they steal from one another.”*Novik, Naomi. Crucible of Gold: A Novel of Temeraire (p. 185). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

*“Taruca was stolen eleven years and three months ago,” the ancient dragon said, “and none of my hatchlings could find him; what do you mean, you are here to bring him back?”*Novik, Naomi. Crucible of Gold: A Novel of Temeraire (p. 190). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

*...at last Curicuillor both understood and believed that they truly meant to give Taruca back, and without any recompense.*
Novik, Naomi. Crucible of Gold: A Novel of Temeraire (p. 190). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.