Choose Your Own Romance

(pg. 12)

"Wait, Dragon!" I cried, and he paused immediately. I took in a breath. "Now come back very slowly and carefully." With an alarmed cautiousness, my dragon backtracked himself until he was back at the doorway, and looked at me questioningly. I pointed to the floor around the chest, leading his sight.

"Do you see the holes and cracking stones there along the base of the platform? That means the floor is hollow underneath." I explained, "See how old and decayed the supports are here? Surely they are worse further down, in the threshingfloor. You might've fallen straight through!"

"I knew that," the reptile harumphed and flicked his tail agitatedly, "Yeah... I knew that. Just testing you. But what's with the box?"

"I am absolutely sure that it is none of our business, but the King's." I told him, then turned toward the drawbridge of the tower to exit. "And he must be informed immediately after breakfast!"

With that, a mumbling Dragon and I made our way back to Kippernia Castle, where he soon departed to his own business, grumbling something about a lost treasure.

We had only been gone for about thirty minutes total, surprisingly enough, and everyone was still eating.

...(pg. 4)