Little Dragon by Jada Fisher

Author:Jada Fisher [Fisher, Jada]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2024-03-26T00:00:00+00:00

7

LESSONS LEARNED, LESSONS IMPARTED

Teaching Lady turned out to be an easier process than Lisbeth thought—for the first two days, at least. It was mostly spent pointing to different things and saying the words, then having Lady repeat the words, then waiting a bit and pointing to it again to see if she could remember what the thing was called.

It was pretty clear that the woman was very keen, considering she’d already picked up on a way to make very rudimentary sentences all on her own, and after the second day of spending several hours with her until her eyes began to droop from fatigue, Lisbeth realized she was only beginning to scratch the surface of just how smart Lady was.

It was intimidating, in a way. Who was Lisbeth but a young girl with a knack for surviving in situations that were stacked against her? That and her stubborn streak about a mile wide was really all she had going for her. But Lady seemed to pick up not only on every bit of vocabulary Lisbeth gave her, but all sorts of other things. Like details of the room around her, the voices of the little ones outside, the fact that there were no windows in Katyana’s room. It was far too much of a risk of having someone sneak in during the dead of night to allow for anything like that.

Strangely enough, Lady didn’t ask many questions about Flit. During the first day, they mostly ignored each other after her fond smile, but somehow, Lady managed to have the little one eating out of the palm of her hand on the second day.

“It likes you,” Lisbeth remarked as Flit happily gobbled down some nuts she was offering.

“It?”

Lisbeth pointed to Flit. “It. Like. You.”

Instead of looking pleased at the comment, Lady frowned. “Girl.”

“Pardon?”

“Girl, not it. It thing. Girl like you. Like me.”

Oh, now wasn’t that interesting? “Are you saying that because you feel like she’s a girl, or you know that it’s a girl?”

The woman stared for what felt like forever, her brow furrowed, but Lisbeth figured out after a beat that Lady was just puzzling together the more complicated sentence.

“Girl,” she repeated before turning Flit around and lifting its tail. The hatchling let out a disgruntled sound, but the woman ignored it as she pointed to the roundish sort of scales at the base of the limb where it transitioned into underbelly. “Girl.” She turned Flit back toward Lisbeth and pointed to the soft little nubs on either side of the eyes that were clustered in two trios. “Girl.”

“Oh,” Lisbeth breathed, realizing that Lady was telling her physiological evidence that sweet little Flit was a female. “The more you know.” Quietly, she added to Flit, “Sorry I was clueless there for a bit.”

Lady gave a resolute nod, smiling fondly again, before resuming feeding Flit. In reality, knowing that Flit was a girl didn’t really change anything, but at the same time, it definitely did. Flit was no longer an unknown, unclear entity removed from Lisbeth’s understanding and only given assumptions.

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