Este é Wild Magic , o primeiro livro do Immortals Quartet por Tamora Pierce (parte de sua série Tortall).
Resumo:
Young Daine's knack with animals gets her a job helping the royal horse mistress drive a herd of ponies to Tortall. It soon becomes clear that Daine's talent, despite her struggles to hide it, is downright magical. Horses and other animals not only obey the mysterious girl, they come to her and seem to listen to her words. But Daine will have to trust humans before she can come to terms with her powers, her past and herself.
Existem grifos, dragões e várias outras criaturas mitológicas. No primeiro livro, eles se dirigem para dois castelos - o palácio real em Corus e o Pirate's Swoop, que é uma propriedade à beira-mar em que os capítulos finais ocorrem.
Daine tenta falar / ouvir os golfinhos no mar. Isso ... não funciona.
Daine grabbed her hand. “You're the purple fire. You brought me back?”
“I gave you a direct jolt to the heart. We thought we'd lost you."
“My heart?” She frowned, remembering. “It made too much noise. I wanted it to quiet down so I could talk with the dolphins.”
“Do you hear her?” Numair asked the clouds. "She wanted to talk to dolphins, so she stopped her own blessed heart! Mithros, Mynoss, and Shakith!”
Daine sat up. “I never.”
Numair opened his mouth and Onua, behind him, covered it. “Not until you can talk without screaming," she said firmly.
"Daine, meditation is done for control over body responses, and thus over mind.” Alanna's purple eyes were amused, but serious as well. “In cutting back the sound of your heart, you were cutting the heartbeat itself.”