[ She hates him. He's not nice at all, the Dragon. He's not anything like what Mom had told them, nothing at all.
Weren't you afraid, Mama?
The first time I saw Aidan? No, not really. But the second time, yes. You have to understand, sweetheart: I was a newly Changed fox, and anything bigger, anything that big, is a predator you learn to either trick or respect.
And with Aidan... let's just say I felt like a toothpick he could chew on.
She's wiping furiously at her eyes then, walking without direction until she nearly trips on one of the plates sitting quietly on the field, and snaps to attention--
--to find her eyes fixed on a pair, in the distance, that she knows ( she does, she does ) better than her own. ]
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Weren't you afraid, Mama?
The first time I saw Aidan? No, not really. But the second time, yes. You have to understand, sweetheart: I was a newly Changed fox, and anything bigger, anything that big, is a predator you learn to either trick or respect.
And with Aidan... let's just say I felt like a toothpick he could chew on.
She's wiping furiously at her eyes then, walking without direction until she nearly trips on one of the plates sitting quietly on the field, and snaps to attention--
--to find her eyes fixed on a pair, in the distance, that she knows ( she does, she does ) better than her own. ]