Dragon's Song by Emily Martha Sorensen

Author:Emily Martha Sorensen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Emily Martha Sorensen
Published: 2018-10-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7: Suitable

Hurrying back with a sour-faced director in tow, Rose stopped as far as possible from the dragon cages and pointed at the cage that contained the egg. “Those are her parents. They are really very suitable.”

Director Campbell’s pinched face said otherwise. “You didn’t mention they were colored.”

“I didn’t mention that because it has no bearing,” Rose said defensively, though she had expected that reaction, and it was why she had stopped so far from earshot to point out the child’s parents. “For all we know, the dragon will have brown or black scales. In any case, she isn’t human in the first place.”

The man looked unimpressed with her impeccable logic. “Well, I suppose the dragon’s life is of prime concern,” he said begrudgingly. “I’ll talk to them.”

He started forward, elbowing his way through the crowd to reach the cage that contained the egg. Wrestling with the pram through the crowd around Violet’s cage, Rose was left an increasing number of paces behind.

As they passed within range of Violet’s telepathy, Rose found herself immersed in yet another highly-fictionalized vision of events, this one of Violet and her parents flying through the sky and hunting together over a New York City skyline.

Rose severely hoped that no one here was gullible enough to believe that was an unaltered memory.

Virgil noticed how near to Violet’s cage they were walking. He climbed halfway up the side of the pram in excitement. Virgil wanted to play with Violet! Did Violet want to play with him now?

Violet, thoroughly engrossed in her daydream, barely even bothered to respond. There was a faint hint of rebuff, then a determined resurgence of her dream.

Virgil was very mad! Violet was being boring! Virgil didn’t like Violet! Virgil would play with the other baby instead!

The daydream now demonstrated Violet breathing fire at an annoying, loud insect to catch it on fire.

Rose chuckled at the metaphor despite herself.

Virgil was really mad!

Rose bit her lip to hide her mirth as she pushed Virgil back down into the pram and replaced the blanket. She had no wish for him to become a second source of curiosity to the audience gathered here.

But as before, Violet was really a remarkable distraction. It was a testament to how engrossed the audience was that nobody seemed to notice either Virgil’s interruption or his appearance when he popped his head stubbornly out of the blanket again.

Rose might have found this lack of awareness disturbing if she had not witnessed the same phenomenon many times before. When one was not used to speaking with dragons, it could be quite difficult to spare any concentration for the world around oneself. She’d experienced it herself, so while it might be rather unsettling to witness, as a source of concern, it was minimal.

Unless, of course, one’s path through a crowd became obstructed by a man who would not move aside to let one’s pram through, even when one asked said man politely, and then several more times with increasing temper, to please do so.

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