'Turtle' is a male SeaWing dragonet and the protagonist of Talons of Power. Along with
being an animus magic|animus Dragons|dragon and a SeaWing prince, he is
currently attending Jade Mountain Academy as a member of the Jade
Winglet. He has romantic feelings for Kinkajou.

## Description

Turtle has unblemished, jewel-toned, dark emerald-green scales with
lighter green underscales and hints of gold in his dark green eyes. He
is a little plump, with an extra curve to his snout and upper arms, and
has large talons. He wears a waterproof pouch around his neck and a
golden armband studded with sparkling skyfire rocks — originally six,
but now reduced to three. His bioluminescent scales emit a pale green
light, and he has a low, rumbly voice. He has a round, anxious face, and
he heavily resembles Fathom. He has spirals and shapes like webbed talon
prints along his wings that are luminescent and oddly beautiful.

## Personality

Turtle is shrewd, nervous, outwardly serene, anxious, wry, curious,
friendly, thoughtful, quiet, peculiar, peaceful, fidgety, and does not
seem to have any fire to him at all. He is also insecure, once referring
to himself as an idiot. Turtle is fearful of everything, and he has
called himself boring, uninteresting, unremarkable, and forgettable;
descriptions that multiple other dragons have agreed with. Turtle lacks
proper communication skills, is often sleepy and mumbly, and he tends to
overshare. He is willing to try his best to be helpful, and he has acted
bravely in order to protect his friends.

He is very self-conscious about his magic, and he often worries about
hurting or even killing other dragons. He was extremely cautious when
concealing his powers and took great care to ensure they would not end
up being discovered. However, Turtle's soul is almost entirely good, and
after the events of Darkness of Dragons, he became less fearful of his
animus magic.

According to Winter, it is easy to forget that Turtle is a prince. He
almost never behaves like royalty, as though he does not want to be
noticed at all. Qibli described him as "easygoing", "used to being
invisible",, and a worrying expert. According to the SandWing, he is
"terrible" at using his animus magic, and it was hard for him to imagine
Turtle coming up with a useful spell on his own. Peril described him as
puddle-like. Other dragons do not typically have much faith in his
ability to protect others.

## Biography

### The Dragonet Prophecy

left The Lost Heir

Turtle was indirectly mentioned when Anemone told Tsunami that she had
lots of brothers, but she could not play with them because Coral
believed they play too rough.

-----

### The Jade Mountain Prophecy

left Moon Rising
When
Moon first saw Turtle, she was confused because she could not read his
mind. The only reception she received from his brain was described as a
quiet hum. When Turtle smiled at her outside of Jade Mountain Academy,
she saw a vision of a sunny beach, with him pinning Anemone down as she
writhed in pain. This made her believe that Turtle was evil in some way.
When the vision ended, Anemone, Turtle, Queen Coral, and Tsunami had
disappeared into Jade Mountain Academy. Moon took this vision as a
sinister attempt to murder Anemone that would happen sometime in the
future and kept a wary eye on Turtle afterward. After the tumult of an
explosion in Jade Mountain Academy that lead to Moon revealing that she
was a mind-reader and prophet, Turtle was the only one who stayed with
her, taking Moon to an underground lake in the caverns of Jade Mountain,
and helping her wash off her seed pod wound on her shoulder in the
explosion of the dragonflame cactus. Turtle mentioned that Moon probably
knew his secret already, and Moon told Turtle that she could not hear
his thoughts, to which Turtle laughed. Moon pleadingly asked Turtle to
lead her to her clawmate's room. On their way, they passed the history
cave and heard voices that they realized belonged to Tsunami and Sunny.
After listening to half of Tsunami and Sunny's argument, Turtle decided
to reveal himself and told Tsunami and Sunny about the dragonflame
cactus. He noted that this particular type of cactus was used in the
Summer Palace when it was attacked by Burn's forces and informed them
that his mother, Queen Coral, tortured a SkyWing prisoner until she
found out what they were. He was surprisingly casual about this subject.

Turtle gave one of his skyfire stones to each member of the Jade
Winglet, after Moon asked him to. He complained about going out to find
Winter in the rain, but followed his winglet anyway.

left Winter Turning

Turtle and his winglet arrived in the forest to find Winter, who was
about to release his scavenger pet. When Moon announced that they would
help Winter on his quest, Turtle was startled but did not add more. Moon
then prompted him to hand over one of his skyfire stones to Winter.

When pondering whether to help Winter, Turtle was shown to be worried
about how the prophecy affected the students in the school and his
promise to keep his sister Anemone safe. Winter seized the opportunity
to convince Turtle into going back to the Jade Mountain Academy to tell
Sunny, Tsunami, and the other dragonets of destiny to not worry about
the rest of Jade Winglet in their quest to search for Winter's brother.
Later, according to Glory, that made them even more worried when they
received Turtle's report.

Turtle was also shown in the epilogue with Anemone, Pike, and Barracuda
in the underground lake. He felt terrible for leaving his winglet, but
Anemone tried to reassure him that he still had her and the other
SeaWings.

left Escaping Peril

Turtle was introduced very early on in the book, surprising Peril with
how little caution he had around her. He encouraged her to spy with him
on the conversation between a couple of the dragonets of destiny, Queen
Ruby, and her accompanying dragons, admitting that he did it often as an
unnoticeable, unmemorable dragon. Peril quickly began seeing him as a
potential friend.

Later, he insisted on traveling with Peril on a hunt to bring down
Scarlet, saying he could be useful (he was referring to his animus
magic), and the two's friendship developed even more. Turtle convinced
Peril to travel with him to meet up with the Jade Winglet in the town of
Possibility further to investigate Scarlet's location despite her
initial protests. After meeting a few Talons of Peace members, a
dragonflame cactus was kicked by a SandWing wanting to buy them, most
likely Sirocco or Rattlesnake, Qibli's older siblings. Peril
accidentally set off the cactus and caused an explosion. It knocked
Peril temporarily unconscious, and at least three other dragons were
burned. Turtle also had thorns in his scales, but Peril burnt them off.
The explosion attracted the conscious remnant of the Jade Winglet, Moon,
and Qibli. Turtle had aching wings from flying to Possibility around
this time, so he enchanted a rock to heal outer wounds. Peril was
shocked at how fast he could "heal in the water" until Peril burnt
Winter and Turtle used the rock to heal Winter. That was when he exposed
his animus magic for the first time in his life.

After Peril left in a fit, Turtle called back to Peril, but she was too
angry to turn back. Later he reappeared after Scarlet was killed, saying
that he came to save Peril but that she seemed to have already done that
by herself. Turtle was also present when Chameleon wrote the enchantment
for Tourmaline to become Queen Ruby again, checking over his writing
before handing it to the queen. When Chameleon tried to escape with
Darkstalker's scroll, Turtle temporarily enchanted the case to bash
Chameleon on the head with it and go to Turtle. He left with the rest of
the winglet to find Moon before she released Darkstalker. When Peril
burned the Darkstalker's scroll, he gave her a smile before realizing
what Peril had actually done.

left Talons of Power
The prologue was set around three years before the rest of the book's
events. Gill found Turtle, Cerulean and Octopus playing in the palace
and asked if one of them could fetch Snapper. Turtle volunteered, but
failed; as a result, the eggs were destroyed and Abalone and Snapper
were both executed by the queen.

Darkstalker emerged from the mountain. Turtle noticed that Darkstalker
seemed to hate him and quickly enchanted a stick to hide him, and later,
completely from Darkstalker, making him non-existent to Darkstalker.
Darkstalker revealed that when Peril burned his talisman, his magic
returned to him. Winter argued with him, but Darkstalker 'won' him over,
which was later revealed to be from a spell cast by Darkstalker. Despite
Moon and Qibli's concerns, both dragons denied Darkstalker using magic.
Eventually, Darkstalker went hunting with the rest of the Jade Winglet,
and Turtle went to warn Jade Mountain Academy on the suggestion of his
clawmates.

He splashed into the underground pool and was immediately found by his
sister, Anemone. He tried to talk to her alone, but she waved him off.
He told her about Darkstalker's awakening in public, but Anemone grew
excited at the prospect of meeting another animus besides Stonemover.
Turtle accidentally revealed to Tamarin that Anemone is an animus,
leading to a brief discussion about the pros and cons of animus magic.

The three parted ways and Turtle went to warn the dragonets of destiny.
Before he does, he heard Sunny and Tsunami discussing the escape of
Fierceteeth and Strongwings and whether Thorn should replace the guards
with Outclaws or not. They ended the discussion and then discovered
Turtle eavesdropping on them. Sunny then questioned Turtle about the
whereabouts of the rest of the Jade Winglet. Turtle warned her about
Darkstalker's awakening. Mightyclaws overheard them and bolted to warn
the other NightWings. Turtle filled Tsunami in about everything,
including Moon's powers, except his own powers.

After this, they went to the library and asked Starflight about
Darkstalker. Starflight told them that Darkstalker was a very powerful
NightWing animus who disappeared over 2,000 years ago after being
betrayed by Prince Fathom and Clearsight and that nobody knews what
happened to him. A trio of IceWings provided them some IceWing
superstitions about Darkstalker, which were that he spent years in the
shadows killing IceWings and that he killed his father, Arctic.
Darkstalker then told them that the legends had been simplified. One of
the IceWings failed to kill Darkstalker due to his immortality and his
impenetrable scales, and then all three bolted. He asked Starflight for
scrolls on Fathom and Clearsight, and when he left, he was immediately
dive-bombed by NightWings. By then, most of the school had gathered.
Darkstalker reassured Clay and Sunny by saying he was Sunny's distant
ancestor. A storm then gathered, and Anemone descended. Darkstalker
announced that he was looking for her and that he was impressed by the
storm her enchanted copper armbands caused.

Turtle apologized to his friends that he could not stop Darkstalker, but
they did not mind. Qibli told him to keep an eye on Darkstalker. Turtle
watched as Darkstalker enchanted Anemone's soul to be safe. He also
noticed Darkstalker had an earring and wondered if it was
animus-touched. He watched as Darkstalker healed Flame's face and gave
Mindreader, Mightyclaws, and Fearless powers. He then saw Darkstalker
save Stonemover and declared Flame as the darkness of dragons and the
stalker of dreams after looking into Flame's pouch and finding the third
dreamvisitor before trapping Flame in the academy.

Turtle then went to the cave shared by Qibli and Winter and asked if he
could stay there. Qibli agreed, and Turtle told them about Darkstalker's
activities. Qibli was slightly suspicious, but Winter was irritated by
this and left the cave. Then Qibli asked Turtle to cast a spell on him
to make him immune to Darkstalker's spell. After Turtle rejected the
idea to cast a spell to make Qibli an animus Turtle agreed and cast the
spell. However, Darkstalker sensed the spell being cast and visited the
cave. Qibli convinced him that it was probably Anemone, but Darkstalker
was still suspicious. Turtle realized that Darkstalker could tell when
another animus casts a spell and left for the Rainforest Kingdom to
watch him.

Turtle, Anemone, Moonwatcher, and the other NightWing students at Jade
Mountain followed Darkstalker to the RainWing kingdom, where Darkstalker
wanted to challenge Queen Glory for the NightWing throne. They
eventually decided that NightWings could go with Darkstalker if they
wanted to. To ensure that most of the NightWings followed him, he
granted more dragons powers before he and most of the NightWings set off
for the lost city of night.

While in the old Night Kingdom, Anemone used her magic to hurt Moon with
a mop. This caused Darkstalker to banish her, sending her off to kill
her family. Turtle followed her to the ruins of the Island Palace, where
they had an animus fight. After Turtle managed to end the battle, he and
Anemone had a brief discussion about animus magic. Darkstalker then
summoned all of the animus dragons in Pyrrhia using a spell. Turtle was
then revealed to Darkstalker and fights Darkstalker while Anemone
escapes. Darkstalker puts Turtle in the dungeon, as Moon had forbidden
him from hurting her friends, but he takes away Turtle's powers with a
spell.

left
Darkness of Dragons
Turtle was shown
after he was released from the NightWing dungeon that Darkstalker put
him in, Anemone and Kinkajou leading him out. As Qibli began to describe
what they had been doing, he was shocked when Qibli said that it was him
that saved everyone from Darkstalker. Qibli gave him one of the earrings
to reverse the spell Darkstalker put on him to take his animus powers
away. Turtle said that he did not deserve magic, but when he realized
that he is the hero he always wanted to be, he put on the earring and
looked up at Qibli with cloudy eyes, almost crying. He left with the
other dragonets towards Jade Mountain with his powers back, determined
to warn the IceWings before the NightWings attack.

Later, he tried to help end the battle with the NightWings and the
IceWings, but Darkstalker hurled a boulder at him and an invisible
Anemone. He luckily survived due to him enchanting his scales to be
invulnerable in Talons of Power and was able to protect Anemone from the
impact. After Qibli came up with the mind-connecting spell, he offered
to enchant it, but Anemone insisted upon her doing it and refused to
allow her brother to lose some of his soul. He is horrified when
Darkstalker took Qibli.

He was later shown in his part of the epilogue, joyfully reading a
letter from Queen Coral, and then Kinkajou showed up, talking about the
love spell and Anemone's crush on Tamarin.

-----

### The Lost Continent Prophecy

left
The Hive Queen
In the prologue, he
appeared with Tsunami while Moon and Qibli were talking. He revealed to
Moon and Qibli that animus magic was not working and claimed Qibli had
"broke animus magic" with his soul spells, which the SandWing denied.
After some debate, Tsunami suggested that she and Turtle swim to
Pantala, which he agreed to.

In the epilogue, he and Tsunami have managed to swim to Pantala and are
in the Poison Jungle. They meet Willow, who rescues them from a snake,
and after asking where they are from, she tells them to return to
Pyrrhia if they want to live, implying that the dangers of Pantala are
not something the Pyrrhians should want to encounter.

left The Poison Jungle

Turtle and Tsunami are seen when Sundew was invited to see
Queen Sequoia by Willow. He was curled up, sleeping near his sister, and
was ill from drinking too much river water. He was seen again at the end
of the book, and because he felt better, he volunteered to draw a copy
of Clearsight's map to Pyrrhia for Io; however, he may have been
planning to duplicate it with his enchanted bowl. He then leaves for
Pyrrhia with the LeafWing and SilkWing refugees, planning to get back-up
from Pyrrhia and defeat the othermind.

left
The Dangerous Gift
When the
SilkWings and LeafWings are landing in Pyrrhia, Tsunami said that he
would come huffing along soon. He was later seen when he and Tsunami
were helping the Pantalan refugees get past the Great Ice Cliff, and
again when he was flying with Tsunami to Sanctuary. Turtle was
indirectly mentioned by Tsunami when she was telling Sundew that they
have four animus dragons. Turtle also briefly appeared in Snowfall's
vision as Jerboa III, when Jerboa III was brought into Darkstalker's
throne room. She saw two SeaWings and a NightWing, who were Anemone,
Turtle, and Stonemover.

-----

### Field Guides

left
A Guide to the Dragon World
Turtle's
scroll to Starflight about his hatching day was featured in the SeaWing
chapter of the guide. He was the recipient of a letter from his brother,
Fin, about their brothers celebrating their hatching day together.

Turtle was later mentioned in the SandWing chapter in Sunny's list of
Burn's collection, thinking that Turtle or Anemone could help identify
the creatures from Burn's fish tank.

## Relationships

### Anemone

Before the Talons of Power ceremony, he had only ever seen his sister
from a distance. During the ceremony, he enchanted Anemone to become an
animus to draw attention to her and away from his own animus abilities
so he could keep his secret hidden and fulfill the greatest hopes of his
mother. He ended up regretting this greatly afterward. Upon going to the
academy, they did begin to spend more time together, but she still
treated him like another subject to order around. She finally started
paying attention to him when he started following her and Darkstalker
around, but the attention was not positive. During their duel on the
beach, Turtle refused to hurt Anemone, and cast only defense spells,
despite Anemone being willing to kill him. After their duel and Turtle
hiding her from Darkstalker, he seems to regard her more as his younger
sister, who he should protect, and she seems to respect him as an older
brother. She once referred to him as a doofus, but he is reassuring and
kind toward her, and she is willing to listen to and react upon how he
feels.

### Auklet

Auklet got excited when she saw him in Talons of Power and hugged him.
She might have wanted to go to Jade Mountain Academy too because he,
along with Anemone and Tsunami, were attending the school. He also
wanted to protect Auklet from Anemone, and could not imagine anyone
hurting a dragonet so small.

### Coral

Coral is Turtle's mother. Turtle, like his other brothers, had been
neglected of Coral's love and attention. He admired her stories, as they
were the closest he could ever get to her, and aspires to become an
author like her. Though Coral had never loved him, he still loved her
enough to save her from Anemone. When Coral revealed the truth about the
deaths of the SeaWing princesses to him, she expresses pity and sympathy
toward her son, even wrapping one of her wings around him to bring him
in close. Though she forgets his name immediately afterward, she
promises to remember it going forward, and she and Turtle share a tender
moment. Afterward, Coral writes regular letters to her son while he is
away at Jade Mountain Academy, sending Turtle her newest stories and
thanking him for his help dispelling the Albatross specter cast by
Darkstalker. Each letter Turtle received from his mother makes him feel
stronger and braver, more like the hero he hopes to be.

### Gill

Gill was Turtle's father. Before Anemone hatched, Gill found Abalone
sick. Panicked, Gill rushed out of the Hatchery and called to the first
dragons he saw, which happened to be Turtle and two of his brothers. He
told Turtle to find Snapper, his co-general, and returned to the
Hatchery to watch over his sick friend. However, Turtle could not find
Snapper that day, and Gill gave up waiting, knowing that if he waited
any longer, his general would surely die. He swam to the healers, and
however fast he may have swum, when the king and the healers returned to
the Hatchery, the two princesses were dead. Gill, furious, tracked his
son down and blamed him for the unhatched princesses' deaths, telling a
distraught Turtle that he was very disappointed in him because he had
not gotten to Snapper quicker. This event discouraged Turtle from
wanting to be a writer and hero, leading him to believe that his
unhatched sisters' deaths were his fault and that his father had died
hating him. However, Coral revealed that it was not Turtle's fault, as
Snapper was stationed at the Summer Palace instead of the Deep Palace.
Gill was captured by the SkyWings before he could tell Turtle about his
guilt for being angry at him.

### Kinkajou

His voice hitched slightly when speaking about her in her injured state,
and he expends energy when it comes to her; he hopped around as he was
wondering what to bring to Kinkajou as a gift. One of the things Turtle
likes about Kinkajou was that she was nothing like him. Turtle did not
see Kinkajou as just another RainWing, similar to the ones that he had
read about in Coral's stories, but as her own dragon. He believes
Kinkajou is more cut out for heroism than he is. At the end of Talons of
Power, Kinkajou says that she loves Turtle, not knowing she was under a
spell. Turtle then sadly replies that it was only a spell and she did
not really love him. At the end of Darkness of Dragons, the love spell
is removed. Kinkajou returned to her normal feelings for him as one of
her best friends. Anemone's spell enchanted Kinkajou to believe that
Turtle was handsome, brave, and noble, but Kinkajou was aware that these
feelings were a result of the spell and was quite angry at Anemone and
at herself. Turtle has an enormous crush on her, and after not
mentioning the spell for about a month after Anemone released Kinkajou
from it, Turtle admitted that he still had feelings for her. Kinkajou
likes him too, but confessed that it was confusing having to go through
enchanted emotions. Kinkajou wants to keep spending time with him in
order to sort out her feelings, but she thinks he is adorable. She once
twined her tail around Turtle's and glared at Anemone, as though to say
that she would be doing so even without the love spell.

### Moonwatcher

After Winter, Qibli, and Kinkajou stormed off in response to
Moonwatcher's revelation that she had mind-reading powers, Turtle asked
her to follow him, taking her to an underground lake so that she could
wash her shoulder after being injured by the dragonflame cactus.
Moonwatcher was initially wary of Turtle due to the fact that she could
not read his mind, and her vision of Turtle attacking Anemone. Upon
meeting Moonwatcher again in Possibility, Turtle grinned as if the
moment were the most delightful thing that had ever happened to any of
them.

### Peril

Upon first meeting Turtle at Jade Mountain Academy, she was irritated at
the way he lounged around in dimly lit caves, as it caused her to
backpedal to avoid running into him. She made him laugh, although he
considered her strange, but she later snapped at him and stated that he
was boring and forgettable, although Turtle did not take offense, simply
stating "I know. I try to be". Turtle later insisted on accompanying
Peril to kill Scarlet, despite her bantering with him to stay at the
academy. She was willing to admit to him that she was not entirely happy
under Scarlet in the Sky Kingdom, and he giggled when he accidentally
hit her with a fish. He laughed at her intense disgust at tasting raw
fish for the first time, and was serene when she joked about setting him
on fire as payback. She later became worried about his choice to sleep
at the bottom of the river, as she thought he might simply want to get
away from her, and had finally realized that she was a terrible dragon
to be friends with. Although Turtle trusted her to remove a dragonflame
cactus pod from his scales, she began panicking upon being introduced to
Moonwatcher's mind reading, wondering if Turtle had simply meant to test
her, and had never trusted her. She begrudgingly told Turtle to go on
without her into Possibility to check up on Kinkajou, and Turtle
believed that he and Peril were not so different because he harnessed
animus magic. He stated that he thought Peril's goal was to help him and
his friends, and became anxious upon discussing her accident with
Winter. She became hurt and angry upon Qibli stating "she just showed up
with Turtle" and fled into the sky, despite Turtle's protests; she also
later thought that Turtle might be happy to never see her again.
However, when Scarlet stated that she was the only dragon who cared for
Peril, she mentioned Turtle, who laughs at her jokes, even the ones she
makes accidentally. She realized that Turtle coming to rescue her from
the Sky Kingdom was something only a friend would do, and when she asked
if Turtle liked her after all, he stated "You're a loon. Of course I
do," despite him being wary of Peril's abilities. She stated that she
was lucky to have him as friend, and they banter often. She does not
want anything to harm him. In Talons of Power, Turtle describes Peril's
company as unpredictable and hilarious. He liked the dragon he was when
he was with Peril though he had not figured out how their stories fit
together. He thought the closest parallel was a scroll about a dragonet
who was raised by a pack of orcas. Turtle sometimes felt like that
dragon's foster brother.

### Qibli

Upon meeting Qibli again in Possibility, Turtle grinned as if the moment
were the most delightful thing that had ever happened to any of them,
though Peril noted that Turtle was mainly there for Kinkajou, not Moon
and Qibli. He cares about his friend's wellbeing as he did not want to
risk anything bad happening to Qibli if he made the SandWing an animus.
Turtle views Qibli as one of those "naturally heroic" dragons. In
Darkness of Dragons, Qibli was constantly frustrated that Turtle had
magic that he was horrible at using, and Qibli did not. Turtle's eyes
brightened when he met Qibli after being imprisoned by Darkstalker.

### Tsunami

Tsunami and Turtle grew quickly to love each other, although at first
Tsunami was unaware that Turtle was one of her brothers. They met
outside Jade Mountain, and Tsunami was incredulous that she had
thirty-two brothers she did not know about. Whenever Turtle visits his
sister at Jade Mountain Academy, Tsunami is either happy or relieved to
see him. In the epilogue of The Hive Queen, Tsunami and Turtle swim to
Pantala together, indicating that Tsunami trusts her brother enough to
take him on a quest.

### Umber

Turtle and Umber used to share a sleeping cave in Jade Mountain Academy
before Umber left with Sora. They used to pull their reed mats close to
each other and sleep with their backs together. Turtle said this was
because they both felt a need to have siblings close to them, as Umber
was used to being with his MudWing sibs, and Turtle usually slept with
all his brothers. Turtle viewed Umber as a brother. He considered Umber
to be kind-hearted and even considered using his magic to go look for
Umber once Darkstalker was gone.

### Winter

Winter is one of Turtle's friends. Despite Turtle heavily fearing his
animus magic being discovered, he was willing to save Winter and expose
his abilities. Upon discovering this, however, Winter exploded on Turtle
and shouted that he should have served his tribe with his magic, causing
Turtle to shy away from him.

## Known Enchantments

Phrasing unknown.
A rock
To heal outer
wounds, sores, and cramps.
ToP
16

As long as this stick is near me or touching me, I enchant it
to hide my entire existence from Darkstalker. That means he cannot see
me or hear me; he cannot remember that he's heard of me; he cannot hear
about me in other people's minds or conversations; and he cannot see me
anywhere in his futures. I enchant this stick to completely erase the
dragon holding it from Darkstalker's awareness.
A broken
stick
To hide the wielder's existence from Darkstalker.

ToP
5

Phrasing unknown.
A piece of kelp
To
make him faster than some of his brothers.
ToP
16

Phrasing unknown.
A seagull egg
To make
Turtle's brothers forgive him after failing to find Snapper.

ToP
88

Phrasing unknown.
Case of Darkstalker's scroll

To bash Chameleon's head and fly to Turtle.
ToP

92

Enchant this earring to make the wearer immune to any spell
Darkstalker has cast or will cast, whether past, present or future.

Qibli's earring
To make the wearer immune to any
spell Darkstalker has cast or will cast, whether past, present, or
future.
ToP
98

Phrasing unknown.
A bowl
To double the
amount of things put into it when ordered "twice as much, please!"

ToP
106

Phrasing unknown.
Complimentary writing slates

To make writing on one send the message to the other. It only
works one way.
ToP
107

Earring, […] get on my ear right now and stay there.

An earring
To get on Turtle's ear.
ToP

137

I enchant this piece of coral to help me find whatever I'm
looking for.
A piece of coral
To find things for
the wielder.
ToP
138

Coconut, don't move. No matter what I or anyone else says to
you, you are now a completely normal coconut who can never be enchanted.

A coconut
To be completely normal.
ToP

246

I enchant my sister Anemone to become an animus dragon, too.
Anemone, become an animus dragon. I enchant you to have talons of power.

Anemone
To become an animus dragon.

ToP
248

Necklace, […] come to me. […] I enchant you to be
powerless from now on.
Anemone's necklace
To
come to Turtle and be powerless.
ToP
264

Dagger, […] turn to sand forever.
Anemone's
dagger
To be turned to sand forever.
ToP

264

Disappear!
A rock
To disappear.

ToP
265

Waves! Wash these crabs out of the sea!
Waves

To wash Anemone's enchanted crabs out to sea.
ToP

266

Shield me!
A palm tree
To shield
him from a piece of stone wall.
ToP
267

Make my scales as hard as diamonds. Make my bones
unbreakable. Make me impossible to hurt, no matter how hard that thing
lands on me.
A shell
To make his scales as hard
as diamonds.
ToP
268

Get… off… me.
A piece of stone wall

To get off Turtle.
ToP
268

Seaweed, go wrap Anemone's mouth shut so she cannot cast any
more spells — neither by voice or thought, as long as you are touching
her. But make sure she can still breathe.
Strands of seaweed

To wrap Anemone's mouth shut and render her unable to cast
more spells.
ToP
268

Enchant this skyfire to make Kinkajou immune to any spell
Darkstalker has ever or will ever cast, and enchant it to make her
completely insignificant in his eyes — not worth thinking about, not
visible in his futures, not in any way a threat to him […] and enchant
it to heal all her injuries as well.
Kinkajou's skyfire rock

To make Kinkajou immune to any spell Darkstalker has or ever
will cast and completely insignificant to him, not seen as a threat or
in any of his futures. It was also enchanted to heal her of all her
injuries.
ToP
158

I enchant you to break every spell Darkstalker has cast on
Anemone the moment you touch her.
A seashell
To
break all spells Darkstalker cast on Anemone.
ToP

263

Protect me from the shells.
Two sand dollars

To protect him from Anemone's seashells.
ToP

266

Seaweed, I want you to wrap around Anemone's arm instead —
but still, as long as you're touching her, she cannot use her magic in
any way. And stay put until I remove you.
Strands of seaweed

To wrap around Anemone's arm and stop her magic from working
as long as it touches her.
ToP
270

## Quotes

You're a mind reader. […] All you have to do is walk around
the school until you hear someone's mind going, 'Well done, me; tiptop
explosion I caused today; aren't I a clever arsonist.'
to
Moonwatcher Moon Rising
201

-----

Kind of a cool evolutionary thing that makes sense if you're a
plant trying to survive on a mountain full of fire-breathing dragons,
right? […] But, uh, horrible, obviously.
to Moon, Tsunami,
and Sunny about dragonflame cacti Moon Rising

207

-----

It's different. […] Swimming is not the same as trying to fly
while getting blown about and whacked with little balls of water and
also the lightning — have we talked about the lightning?
to
the Jade Winglet about flying in a storm Moon Rising (book)|Moon
Rising
287

-----

I do not APPRECIATE your skeptical tone. […] Just because I
don't particularly like danger or uncertainty or … or exercise, doesn't
mean I couldn't be useful in a fight.
to Peril

Escaping Peril
45

-----

I, uh ... came to rescue you? […] Well, to find out what was
going on anyway. I heard there was a spell or something? But then I got
here and it was very stormy and I couldn't find you and suddenly there
were eight million SkyWings pouring out of the mountains and a big fight
going on and I thought ... maybe better to stay out of the way until
it's over. Right?
to Peril
Escaping Peril
241

-----

Why did I ever let anyone notice me? I'd be safe if I'd stayed
boring and forgettable. This is what happens — when someone sees you,
soon everyone will see you. And one day that "everyone" will include a
dragon who wants to kill you.
thoughts
Talons of Power
1

-----

You are … but that's because of me. […] I'm so sorry,
Anemone. I'm the one that made you an animus. Right here, the day of the
Talons of Power ceremony. I didn't want anyone to find out about me, so
… I distracted them with you. And everything that's happened to you
since then is all my fault.
to Anemone
Talons of Power
264

-----

Maybe losing your soul isn't the right way to describe it.
[…] Maybe it's more like … the more you use your power for bad
things, the more you feel like you're entitled to use your power for
anything. It makes it harder to go back — only forward into more bad
things. […] But … I think you can go back. I think anyone can choose
to do good, or be good, no matter what happened before. I think you just
have to try really hard. And that means stopping yourself before you do
even worse things.
to Anemone
Talons of Power
272

-----

It's not too late for your soul. […] You're here now, with
us. You're on the right side, doing the right thing. You're not evil.

to Anemone
Darkness of Dragons
316

-----

I'm going to work hard to be super awesome, too. […] I should
have some idea of what to do. It'll be crazy if I actually end up in one
of these stories myself. Save the world, check. Stop being afraid of my
magic, check. Figure out a way to protect my soul, check. Become the
kind of dragon I'd want to read about — working on it. Probably working
on it for the rest of my life. But I think I'm getting there.

thoughts
Darkness of Dragons
379

## Trivia

  - Turtle fears storms.
  - Turtle hates exercise.
  - After failing to find Snapper, Turtle's brothers refused to talk to
    him for an entire month as punishment.
  - Before animus magic stopped working, Turtle was in the process of
    writing an animus spell to restore Starflight's eyesight.
  - Turtle believes that following the stars due west in the middle of
    the ocean can lead to major land.
  - Turtle said he has excellent penmanship.
  - Turtle was one of the hardest characters to write, because Tui     purposely made him enigmatic in Moon Rising and
    had not completely figured him out by Talons of Power. She said he
    is not a typical hero, but he has the heart of one.
  - Turtle does not have very good aim.
  - Turtle fiddles with his armband by tugging it up and down when he is
    nervous.
  - Turtle once took an anatomy class.
  - Turtle is a slow swimmer.
  - In the graphic novel, Turtle's armband is placed close to his wrist.
    On the cover of Talons of Power, however, it was placed closer to
    his shoulder.[1]