A Castle for Dragons

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Horror washed through Kathryn as she stood by and watched the great, black beast cutting across the sky.

Reports had come back from the outlying farms of a dragon stealing livestock, but no one had really believed them. Dragons were mythical creatures—stories told to scare bad children into being good. And even if they were real, they were long gone from the world. No one believed in dragons anymore, but there it was. A dragon. Big as life, with scales black as night. Something dangled in its claws.

Squinting, Kathryn could just make out the wiggling legs of some farm creature. It wasn’t big enough to be a cow, maybe a sheep or pig. Whatever it was, it was someone’s precious livestock, gone to fatten up the huge creature that shouldn’t have been there.

Kathryn glanced back when she heard a noise behind her. Turning her attention to the dragon again, she continued to watch the creature in the sky. “Do you see it?” she asked as her father came up behind her.

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