![]() Along the way, Shuibai encounters smuggling and murder among other illegal activities that he must stop. ![]() ![]() Rather than simply maintaining the status quo, Shuibai makes fire fighting better through his earnestness, caring, experimenting, ideas, and tenacity. All this changed one day when he was appointed Fire Warden. Shuibai was never interested in women or men and was content with his life though, like nearly everyone, he yearned for more. ![]() In a culture in which women are respected and men are not, yet rulers are often males, Shuibai knows his place as the lowest of the low in his family of all women, in his community of poor people, and in the country as an untouchable due to his work with leather. Set in an exotic, magical land, possibly based China or Japan, Kei’s Fire Dragon follows Shuibai, a bucket-maker from a family of untouchables, as he goes from lowly outcast treated like dirt by his mother because he left the family bucket business to powerful Fire Chief of the Lower Marsh. ![]()
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