Laura Kinsale by The Dream Hunter

Author:The Dream Hunter
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Elizabeth, an active child, found her mother entirely too dull to be borne in the very early dawn. She knew that if she put her small face up to Mama’s, trying to wake her, she would only be snugged close and trapped, and then she wouldn’t be able to fall out of the bed all by herself. But she did take a moment to investigate the unusual circumstance of an extra arm, large and brown, hugging her mother.

Elizabeth thought hug was a nice word. Hugging was a nice thing to do. “Guh,” she said, touching the new arm.

A low rumbling sound came from somewhere the other side of Mama. The hand moved, and the arm, and a head of tousled black hair appeared. As Elizabeth stared in delight, a dragon lurked up from the floor, squinting and shaking its head. She pressed her hands together and smiled at it.

It blinked its blue eyes, and smiled back.

Elizabeth cooed. She crawled to the bed stool and turned about and let herself down very creditably. In her beribboned slippers, she ran around the bed and found the entire dragon, a great expanse of tanned brown skin right down at her level. She gave a squeal.

Mama murmured something sleepy. The dragon looked at Elizabeth with its laughing blue eyes and whispered, “Shh-hhh,” in a soft way, softer than the average hissing dragon that Nurse drew for her on paper. Very gently it disengaged itself from hugging Mama and rose.

It turned into a man as it did, and Elizabeth quailed back a little, less certain of men than dragons. But he didn’t try to pick her up; he just walked, tall and impressive in padded stocking feet, into her playroom. He started to close the door.

Elizabeth instantly ran forward. She was not going to be shut out of her room. She smacked her chubby hands against the door before it latched.

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