A/N: [Sheepishly slinking back in here] Hey all. Guess when it rains it truly does pour. Initially, I had been planning to take a break just to finish up my second semester, with all of the finals and papers that come with, but things went places and I wound up taking summer courses and needing to concentrate on those. Then a part-time job that now is almost turning out to be more trouble than it's worth comes along with some mild technical issues and I get put off of writing for weeks at a time. At any rate, I've proofread this as much as I was able, but if there are any issues, inconsistencies, or errors that come in the rereading. This has been the product of multiple stops or starts over a period of months, so it's entirely possible that some bits don't quite match.

Also, there is another matter that I want to bring to the attention of anyone who's expressed a fondness for my work at large, especially given that over the years I have managed to accrue quite a bit of characters as well as stories from the weird creatively-swamped backwash that is my brain. Along with fanfictions, I do dabble in trying to get them down in a Word document from time to time, and been having success with some. I apologize in that not all of them do not directly involve dragons, but many of them do involve dragonish motifs or symbols, so it should keep a draconic story lover occupied and happy. The point I am somewhat long-windedly trying to get to is a part of the summer for me has been preoccupied with what would come after writing these stories. There's a surprising amount of options out there, from putting out manuscripts to publishers to trying to self-publish it on something like Amazon, but I haven't made a clear decision on much of anything yet. Another issue is would anyone bother to pick up my original works. Granted, I don't necessarily have a sample that I can shove in front of you to get your opinion, but judging on what you've read from my previous stories, whether it be from Jane and the Dragon or any other fandom, would you be interested in reading any of my own ideas?

Be the answer yay or nay, just leave an addendum in your review. If you don't care, then just skip to the story.

Anyway then, folks, allons-y!

Sneaking:

He had managed to slip out of the two-legged home as the sheep had started in with a new chorus of baaing. He just barely missed the two-legged that came in a little while later, seeing her walk up to the barn as he took cover among the trees bordering the human village. She barely seemed to notice, coming in and letting the lot of the four-leggeds loose out in the fenced in area of green. He had had quite the comfortable sleep, but the air was still nippy and made him shiver on occasion.

If there were only a way for him to get back inside the human structure as needed. The door was being fixed even tighter from what he could see from his refuge in the bushes.

That or he could try braving the elements, something that was not a welcome idea in the least, especially if things were going to get even colder. As he thought, the reptile made his way around the pasture, coming close to the fence as he came to the furthest point away from the four-legged wooden cave. As he tried to slink down as much as possible, unconsciously mimicking the traits he had learned while jumping geese, the green lizard suddenly noticed a familiar lowing coming from his right. Poking his head up, he sniffed the air curiously, and noticed a scent on the wind blowing his way. Turning his head, he jumped slightly at the sudden appearance of one of the four-legged, 'moo'-making creatures. Once he had gotten over his shock, the dragon noticed that his new visitor was the four-legged he had 'befriended' the night before. The brown, liquid eyes looked at the partially hidden lizard in askance, almost as though it were wondering why its new friend wasn't joining the rest of the herd.

Of course, while the two-legged was still in the fields, he could not simply stride out there, no matter how much he might like to. However, there might very well be something else he could do. Slinking down low in the grass, he tried to mimic the sound back, just to make it seem as though he was nothing to be concerned about. His was a little too shrill, and a bit too much of the 'oooo' than the 'mmm', but he seemed to have grasped the basics of the noise. The two-legged paused a moment, but kept going until it went into the confines of the brown hill-cave. He looked to his new friend as the creature made the same lowing noise again. He liked to think it was almost fond.

Well, looks as though we might be hitting on a long-in-coming character arc for Dragon. I like to think he might not even really remember all that well why he's so fond of cows, but our female bovine friend might be the very first being in a long time whose been more than a means of play for Dragon.

Hoping to be at least partly back in the swing of things,

Blackmoondragon1415