Sample - Ring Dragonz

The Wu Wei Towers
brother and I’m certainly not afraid to deal with
him. My father would expect me to.”
“It’s not safe – especially for the children after
what happened yesterday,” the woman pleaded with
her husband.
“I refuse to be chased away from my
homeland. We came here to attend our son’s science
fair and that’s what we are going to do,” Mr. Lee
insisted. “In fact, I…”
Anne Mai squinted her eyes to hear this last
bit, but suddenly a tingly gust of wind blew over her
back. Turning around, a pair of hovering eyeballs
glared menacingly at her. The bodiless eyeballs
then blinked. The teen stood up with a fright,
knocking her head against a silver gong that
featured a fierce dragon embossed in its middle.
The metal gong howled like an alarm around her
uncle’s estate.
“What’s that?” a voice cried.
Anne Mai sprinted back down the hall to her
room and buried her head under the covers. Many
voices started collecting outside her door. Anne
Mai’s heart pounded so loudly she was sure the
whole house could hear it. But after several minutes
the voices returned to their quarters and the palace
fell silent once again. An hour later, the girl still lay
motionless. Finally, she dozed back into an uneasy
sleep – those two ghostly eyes frozen in her mind.
The next morning, Mr. Lee awoke with the
sun. He walked briskly down the hall dressed for
business in the finest suit he had packed. The man
stepped in front of a mirror to sharpen his tie, then
turned into the courtyard to find his brother. But he
was not there. Mr. Lee spent several more minutes
searching the grounds, but could find no sign of his
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