"As the carriage moved off I was fuming inside. Graham's conversation with Major Jones showed that Felicity and he had meant me to be tied and gagged ...ut they hadn't told me what they were going to do. I struggled with my bound hands."Stop that, Abigail!" Felicity hissed. "You are staying like that until we get to my aunt's house." Then before I realised what she was doing she dropped to the floor of the carriage and tied my ankles together. As I feebly tried to kick she tied the end of the. Each of its great paws endedin four talons, each one as long as Jonathan's entire body, and immensewings stretched out from its back. Amber eyes stared at the young man, asthe beast slowly lowered its head and opened its maw."What are you doing here?" A harsh, feminine voice escaped the monster'slips. Jonathan was caught completely off-guard."Y-You're a girl?" he asked, and immediately regretted it. The dragonreared up and flames escaped her jaws, the golden light that filled thegrotto turning. She looked back out toward the lights of the town of Sedalia across route 67. A car was wavering at the gate into the Big T ranch, more affectionately known in the roadside bars around the area as the Big Tits ranch, and Nadine was willing it to turn in. She needed gas money. There’d be no run tonight up to Winter Park if she didn’t at least get gas money out of this evening. ‘If you’re goin’, why don’t ya just go, girl?’ Stella piped up and continued on. ‘It don’t look like there will be more. The old man shook his head. "Not my place to say. But she's not a rejuve.Never, not once."Jas wondered how safe he was inside the cabin with this old man.Orphan?Jas looked around again. He didn't see any knives or hatchets. Nofirearms, either. Nor an obvious way down to an unfortunate future inthis old man's cellar. But there was a modern-looking fire extinguisher."May as well sit." The old man pulled a deck of cards from a slot underthe counter. He handed it to Jas. "I'm not much for visitors..