The Dragon Man
“It was simple curiosity—or so she told herself. She wanted to make sure that what she’d told the tailor and the sublimate technologist was really true: that the shadowbats were indeed intoxicating themselves on the evaporating nectar of her rose. She also wanted to take a longer look at the shadowbats themselves, in order to appreciate the ingenuity and the workmanship that had gone into the new kind of life.She didn’t have long to wait, and felt a thrill of pleasure when she saw them emerge fr...om the night. They knew the way, now; they knew she had a rose, and what it could do for them.There were six of them, and Sara had no doubt that they were the same ones. She wondered, as she watched them fluttering around the room, whether they had returned to the hometree on all the nights when she had kept her window closed, hovering invisibly outside the plastic and waiting forlornly for a treat that never came, or whether this was the first time they had been allowed out since their mysterious temporary disappearance.Either way, she realized, the further encouragement that she was now providing would only serve to reinforce their new habit.MoreLess
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