There's a Dragon in my Stocking by Tom Nicoll

Author:Tom Nicoll
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847158970
Publisher: Stripes Publishing

All that could be heard was the sound of her fingers tapping on the little screen. Her eyes were fixated on the device. Had she seen us? Did she even know we were there?

We appeared to get our answer a few seconds later when finally she frowned at her screen then walked out of the room, slamming the door behind her.

I almost collapsed with relief.

“Chatty, isn’t she?” said Pan’s dad.

Pulling myself together, I turned to the dragons. “I’ll go and get you something to eat but you have to promise not to leave this room. Really, really promise this time.”

The Mini-Dragons mumbled something.

“I need to hear it,” I said.

“Dragon’s honour,” they said.

I left them and headed back downstairs. I was just stepping past the living room when an arm reached out and grabbed me. “There you are, Eric,” said Grandad, pulling me inside. “It’s a family Word Battle Royale – Crisps versus Blooms versus Lewises versus Songs. Ready to rumble?”

“Well, actually…” I said.

“Excellent,” said Grandad. “Now maybe you can explain to Frank here that zoxyqoj is a perfectly good word.”

“Use it in a sentence, then!” demanded Mr Bloom.

“Zoxyqoj,” said Grandad. “As in, Frank’s being a real zoxyqoj about this.”

I was stuck there for the next hour and a half. Grandad wouldn’t let anyone out of the room for fear they would head straight to the nearest dictionary. I couldn’t help thinking that the words I was coming up with might have been slightly influenced by my upstairs guests:

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