One Green Feather

By Ann Stratton

Nanna Austrani has been following the dragon from the Olmecs to the Mound Builders and back. She's come to the serpent's temple at last. But her guide is not all he seems to be. Will the temple itself kill her, or is someone else down here with her?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ann Stratton
• Release date: Jun 27, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223362913

Ann Stratton

Ann Stratton started writing at age thirteen with the usual results. After a long stint in fan fiction, honing her skills, she hopes she has gotten better since then. She lives in Southeastern Arizona, trying to juggle all her varied interests. 

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One Green Feather

Ann Stratton

Published by Ann Stratton, 2023.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

ONE GREEN FEATHER

First edition. June 27, 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Ann Stratton.

ISBN: 979-8223362913

Written by Ann Stratton.

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One Green Feather

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One Green Feather

Ann Stratton

A Blind Woman Production publication

Copyright © 2023 Ann Stratton

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There was a legend, Nanna had heard, that if you could trap the dragon, or outwit it in some way, you could force it to give up its treasure. The hard part was finding the dragon. It had taken her years of research and running down leads that went nowhere.

But in that mess of misdirection, she found a thin thread that she could follow. Sometimes she thought she lost it. Sometimes she thought it petered out, but then she would find some small clue that let her find the trail again. Sometimes she felt like Indiana Jones, without Nazis. Or Commies. She rolled her eyes at that. Red herrings.

She  had started her search with the nearly unknown Olmecs, who had identified the dragon first, learning what little there was to know about their understanding of the dragon. She followed the knowledge and worship, sorting what she could fact from legend, but after all this time and who knew how many revolutions and wars, the dragon was mostly legend.

She had to sift through the legends too, and appropriation by the Spanish, and had come to the conclusion that the feathered serpent had been based on an actual being: the dragon itself. Where the dragon had come from none of the legends told, but she wondered if it had