“Damn, dragon,” Cara commented as he wedged her between the wall and his body. Her hand went to the top of her head, ice particles falling like tinkling bells from the quilt held around her. “You sort of froze me. Excuse me?”<br/><br/>He was craning his long neck, looking around inside the small cabin. She wondered what the lights and the fire looked like through his eyes. She knew the lights played off the small glass vials of potion in the back window because during the day when the sun was shining they spread a rainbow of color across the wooden floor.<br/><br/>To steady herself, she lay both hands flat against his side. His shimmering white opalescent scales were not hard frozen plates of ice like she had originally thought,  but rather were smooth peary white and warm to the touch. Cara was shocked that they were not rough but were silky smooth like a woman’s cheek. The bristles along his back reminded her of pictures she had seen of elk antlers in velvet.<br/><br/>He was warm, she thought with some shock. The Fire dragons were like reptiles, but this dragon had fur and was warm blooded. She liked him better already.  He was curious just like her and she had a feeling that if there were “dragons in charge” like the priestess of her coven, that he was considered a rabble rouser just like she was.<br/><br/>“Hey, dragon,” she patted him gently on the side. “You didn’t eat the any of our animals the other day. Are you hungry? I found a half a pig in the freezer and I don’t eat pork. I could get it for you.” Her voice was gentle and low, like you would use to soothe a child or a wild beast. Cara strangely was not afraid of him, and she was sure it was a him, something about his voice.<br/><br/>“You keep saying Dragon,” she said and then chuckled, “In the Game of Thrones there was this big guy who said Hodor to everything. I hope you learn to say more than Dragon, but if you don’t, that’s okay. I would like to be your friend and you can be mine. I bet I could learn a lot about drago….ooooophhh”<br/><br/>His body smashed her tighter against the wall and Cara struggled to make room to breathe.