Dull Teeth by D. M. Gilmore

Author:D. M. Gilmore [Gilmore, D. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-29T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

“I saw Jeremy today,” Lewis said, as he lay down on the soft forest loam.

Becca slid off his shoulder and landed hard on the earth below. She staggered for a moment before sitting down on a nearby boulder. Lewis snaked his head around it and practically rested it in her lap. The more time she spent around him, the more she was coming to realize that dragons were basically big lap animals. They loved being petted. She smiled as she ran her fingers down the bridge of his snout and watched as he closed his eyes with a purr.

“How is he doing? He hasn’t spoken to me in a while,” Becca said.

“We had a fight.”

“As in an argument?”

“Nope, as in a physical fight. He attacked me. A lot,” Lewis grumbled. “Remember Lambton’s knife? Jeremy’s got it now. It still doesn’t work, but it hurt when he — YEOW!” Lewis cried out in pain as Becca ran her fingers over the cut on his snout. “When he cut me.”

“Oh, you poor baby,” Becca murmured, pulling her hand away from the cut. It wasn’t very deep, and so far as she could tell, it wasn’t even bleeding anymore. There was no scab, only some cut scales. “It really hurts that much?”

“Yeah,” Lewis grumbled. “He cut down to the root of some scales. Hurts to touch.”

Becca shook her head and carefully began to pick away scale fragments from the cut. As she tugged loose shards off his snout, oily red dragon blood leaked out. He quickly lapped it up with his thick, forked tongue, shivering at the touch but staunching the bleeding.

“Did you kill him?” Becca asked, all at once afraid of the answer.

“No, I didn’t even really fight back. I added him to my hoard, though, and tried to prove I was safe for him to be around.”

“I bet he didn’t take kindly to being hoarded,” Becca chuckled, scratching Lewis behind the ear. She remembered how the others had reacted when she told them that Lewis would have to lick them and sniff them for a solid minute before they’d officially be a part of his hoard. Neither Brandon nor Lucy had liked the idea, while Martha and Grace had flat out refused to let him get that close to them. She supposed if she brought it up, Crystal might find it amenable. Still, she wasn’t entirely sure if Lewis was interested in hoarding the scientists studying him.

“No, he didn’t,” Lewis grumbled, leaning into her touch. “Oooh yeah, right there, that’s the spot,” he purred. The ground shook as he thumped a foot happily.

Becca waited for the thumping to stop before she started up again. “So, if you managed to add Jeremy to your hoard, does that mean he wants to be friends with you again?” Becca asked.

Lewis paused and looked away. “I’m not entirely sure, to be honest,” he admitted. “I want to believe that we can move past all of this,” he continued, gesturing to himself with a nod of his head, “but Jeremy… I dunno.

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