I’m breaking with my theme “Children” and poetry slightly for today. My pet dragon and his best friend Emily insisted. This is an excerpt from the book we are working on “Raising a dragon in the 21st Century.”
Today my class went on a cool field trip to the Air and Space Museum. There are really old planes and even a space shuttle. I imagined being in the cockpit of the Discovery as it shot into space on the back of a rocket. I was adjusting my space suit when…
“Look up there,” one of the students pointed. “That red airplane is moving. Do you think it will fall?”
“Those airplanes are well secured so they wont fall.” Our tour guide assured us.
“It’s like the movie Night at the museum,” another student said as we watched several of the airplanes rocking back and forth on their thin cables.
The tour guide stepped away from our class and got on her walkie. I saw her lips mouth “Is it safe for these children…”
Then I noticed the shadow of a dragon wing brushing against a plane.
“Drag,” I hissed, “get over there.” I pointed to the bathrooms as I stomped over to the corner out of sight. “What are you doing here?”
“Emily, when I heard you were going to a place where there were flying things I wanted to see them too. Not one of them will talk to me.”
“Hmmm. You thought you would find another dragon at the museum?”
Drag’s eyes got big as he nodded.
“Ohhh Drag, I’m sorry. All these things are machines. As far as I know, you are the only living dragon.”
“That’s too bad.” Drag made a face at the winged machines.
“Please stay right next to me until we get outside. Then I want you to fly straight home. No more touching airplanes. And you need to stay invisible.”
“Ok Em,” my dragon wiggled his eyes.
I giggled and crossed my eyes.
You can’t be too careful where you go when you are raising a dragon in the 21st century…
“Hi – If you are visiting from the A to Z challenge can you please not tell my papa you saw me. He get’s worried about my pet dragon and incidents and stuff I don’t understand yet.”
~ Thanks Em
penned in moon dust 