Not The Surrogate Baby They Ordered
he asked, settling into the chair across from her with an ease that made Marcus, watching from the hallway, blink in genuine surprise.
"He's not a dragon anymore," Zuri informed him seriously. "He's a whole family of dragons now. This one's the baby." She held up her latest drawing, a considerably smaller, rounder version of her earlier dragon, complete with an oversized, slightly crooked smile.
"He looks friendly," Ethan observed, studying the drawing with the same genuine attention he'd shown that morning.
"He is friendly. He's not scary at all, actually, even though he's a dragon. People think dragons have to be scary, but I don't think that's true."