2019/31: League of Dragons -- Naomi Novik

2019/31: League of Dragons -- Naomi Novik

Yu Li broke [the silence] herself, saying in Chinese, "This is a very handsome map, but those men are not over there," while leaning forward to make several alterations to the disposition of figures with the talons of her foreleg, nudging some here and there in small increments until she was satisfied with their arrangement. She straightened up from the table and blinked around at the company, who wore a general expression of disquiet: a dragon did not generally appear in a dining room, and even Laurence had to admit of a vague sense of something decidedly out of place, as though a caricature from the Gazette had abruptly come to life. [p. 317]

In which Temeraire and Laurence go home.
( no spoilers -- thus rather short! )