I squatted down and said gently to Ronnie, “Hi there big guy. My name is Benjamin. Can you shake my hand?” as I extended it out to the boy. He ...ooked out from her skirt for a second and then turned towards me and took my hand in his and with one shake, we were buddies.About that time Linda made her appearance and what an appearance it was. My jaw must have dropped a foot because when I saw the first vision of her, it took my breath away. She was wearing a baby blue gown, strapless and. " I don't need to hear anything that you have to say." Maybe not, but I need to say it. It won't take long. May I come in?"I stared at her for several minutes (looking mostly at her throat and wanting to put my hands around it and squeeze as hard as I could) before stepping aside and letting her come in. She went straight for the kitchen and I followed along behind her. She pulled out a chair and sat down and I took the chair opposite."How have you been?" she asked."How the fuck you think I've. . it’ll be all-raht.- Ah’m sure yer siyster will be okahy…” she was rubbing my shoulder as she comforted me, and my nose inhaled her perfume. My direction-finder sprung to attention in less time than I thought possible. I cleared my throat and swallowed, taking a moment to rub my heavily-threatening tears away. With blushed cheeks, I looked at her. “I suppose I’ll leave these with you. Maybe you can do something with them. She won’t need them anymore.” I almost broke down hard and cried at. Her eyes widened and I disconnected just before she reacted fully to realizing that she had sipped on blood. Seriously, what was with all my friends and not liking to drink blood just because they weren’t vampires? It was starting to strike me as incredibly rude. But I resolved to not let that let me be a rude dragon as I opened my eyes to find that the tiny sphere of pure black metal that was my cell ... was empty. I blinked, then sat up – and suddenly, a shimmer filled the air, then resolved.