I await the day I see one of your works come up on the Amazon Kindle freebies/First Reads
That would be only if you can stand up to the humor. Snippet Tiny is a 'penciled in temporary name' because I haven't yet got one I like. It is also night so very little light to see by.
Walk, keep walking, it wasn’t like she was betraying him. Perhaps give him one last chance? “You know I’ve got a dragon claw knife?”
He laughed, “dragons don’t exist. They are things dumb people believe in. Others just go along with that idea.”
Kassia reached a big, fat, old oak tree by the drainage canal and leaned against the water side. She tried to sound just a bit as if his statement had been a revelation to her. “So dragons really don’t exist?”
“No, they can’t exist, just far too big, and the wings? Never be able to get one off the ground. Pure self..”
There was noise,the wind increased and then a huge gust blew Sariel right off the side of the canal into the water. Luckily the total depth of the canal was only two metres, and the water level a bit lower than that. He managed to stand up with the water barely reaching the top of his shoulders. Quickly wading back to the side he pulled himself out with some effort.
He wiped the remaining water from his face and threw some pond weed off his armour then looked at Kassia. “Stop laughing! What the hell was that?”
Kassia shrugged, “I’ve no idea. As you have so graciously told me about them it couldn’t have been a dragon. They don’t exist, do they?”
Tiny’s huge snout came out of the darkness. It seemed to barely touch his chest but he still flew backwards into the water again. “Nope, greater dragons definitely don’t exist, none of them.”
This time Kassia helped him out of the water. ”Why do you keep jumping into the canal?”
“But it’s that…” he managed before Tiny’s face approached him, her mouth split slightly and the tongue came out of the gap hitting him in the face. What followed was possibly the largest raspberry in the history of humanity. Sariel, barely standing on the edge of the canal fell back in.
Kassia pulled him half out the canal, “that what? There’s nothing here.”
Sariel coughed, “that dragon!”
“BUT DRAGONS OBVIOUSLY DON’T EXIST!” Tiny boomed. “Err, one second, gotta turn the page.”
“OK, I admit it, dragons obviously do exist. I now have undeniable evidence of it!”
Tiny turned away, as Kassia helped him onto his feet again. “Dragons exist.” he repeated between gasping.
“And don’t you forget it!” The tip of Tiny’s tail flicked, another loud splash followed. “Thug life! I really need some shades.”
This time Sariel didn’t even bother trying to get to the bank, he simply stood in the middle of the water and demanded, “how much of a grudge do dragons keep?”
“Dragons don’t keep grudges,” Kassia offered, ”at least not for that long. It’s just that she’s got a book. One hundred and one ways to punt a dragon denier into a canal. She wants to try all of them. Now can you come here so I can get you out again? We’re only up to, number five? Oh, Chaos Lords! Your face is a real picture.”