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Maybe start to wrap up? SoSuWriMo 386
Haven understood the idea of wanting to find something worth fighting and defeating. That was why he had always imagined being a strong brave knight that could go off and slay fearsome dragons. Or that one time when he had been the dragon and his sister Brooklyn had been a ogre. He missed playing those games, they had been so much fun. Maybe he could play them again whenever he had kids, though that would be a long ways off. There were many, many things to do in his life before he started having pups. He needed to be older, for one, he was just barely out of adolescence himself. Then he needed to find a mate. He and Princess were growing closer, but he had no idea if they would end up being mates or not. There were a lot of things they had to work through to get to that point, the biggest would be trying to figure out where they would live. Princess had her brother in Crimson Dreams and Haven couldn't imagine leaving Cour des Miracles. It would be a difficult problem to solve.
You never really ate the head of any animal, so it wouldn't be difficult for the birds to avoid ingesting the dangerous parts of a snake. He supposed whatever secreted the poison could lay farther back in the body, in the neck or something (though with a snake it was hard to tell where the neck ended and the rest of it began). Either way, the birds did have to be smart to take on and feast on such prey. "Yeah, the ones who aren't that smart probably die." Natural selection, though of course Haven didn't know about Darwin or his theories that was still the basic idea that he was talking about. Since Emwe seemed so interested in dangerous creatures, Haven's smirk rose. Had anyone told the boy about dragons? "Do you know about dragons Emwe?" As he spoke Haven extended his right arm, showing off the dragon that was bleached onto his wrist. "They're like a lizard combined with a bat, but they're enormous and can fly and breathe fire. Everyone says they're only a myth, but the world's a big place, ya know?" Even now he liked to believe that there could be dragons somewhere.