XI
Miri watched as Old Dark yawned and lumbered awake. His eye sweltered beneath his eyepatch, and he looked like he had been in deep sleep. She wondered what sleep was like after a thousand year curse.
If it were her, she’d never want to sleep again. But if you were holed up in a cage all day, what else were you going to do? If she was ever able to update her thesis with her observations, the world would be shocked indeed to know that the great dragon lord spent most of his time sleeping.
“I am going to see about getting you a television again,” she said.
That would be a tough battle. Lucan cursed her out the last time she brought Dark a television. But cruelty was cruelty and she wasn’t going to stand for it.
Dark yawned again, exposing a gum line with missing top teeth. His jaw cra
