Dragon Fever
“Or maybe that was just her thoughts and fears trapped in an endless rollercoaster of up and down. She’d gone from her quiet microscope in a boring beige office building to this outlandish fever dream of weirdness.
Friends gone missing. Bizarre blood disorders. A mysterious stranger who roused in her a desire that was morphing into an addiction.
She remembered her father telling her, “Pick the fruit in front of you. Wait for the ones that will be ripe tomorrow.”
He hadn’t been offering any parti...cular kind of wisdom. He’d just been talking about apples and cherries, but she thought it still applied.
Abruptly Rave said, “Please don’t be afraid of…of my brother. With the petralys condition, light and heat are painful. He’s been confined to these rooms for…awhile.”
Piper nodded, touched by his urge to defend his brother. “I dealt with my dad’s illness,” she reminded him. “And in my job, I’ve identified toxic algae blooms and brain-eating amoebas and parasitic infestations that cause deformations in fish and frogs.MoreLess
Friends gone missing. Bizarre blood disorders. A mysterious stranger who roused in her a desire that was morphing into an addiction.
She remembered her father telling her, “Pick the fruit in front of you. Wait for the ones that will be ripe tomorrow.”
He hadn’t been offering any parti...cular kind of wisdom. He’d just been talking about apples and cherries, but she thought it still applied.
Abruptly Rave said, “Please don’t be afraid of…of my brother. With the petralys condition, light and heat are painful. He’s been confined to these rooms for…awhile.”
Piper nodded, touched by his urge to defend his brother. “I dealt with my dad’s illness,” she reminded him. “And in my job, I’ve identified toxic algae blooms and brain-eating amoebas and parasitic infestations that cause deformations in fish and frogs.MoreLess
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