Total pages in book: 80
Estimated words: 77812 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 389(@200wpm)___ 311(@250wpm)___ 259(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 77812 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 389(@200wpm)___ 311(@250wpm)___ 259(@300wpm)
“Klynn and I both agree that progress has been made and monitoring would be necessary.”
Daddy was firm about that because Klynn almost had to out himself to keep a couple of teenagers from going through the portal.
The cranky dragon had not been happy about that…and neither had Daddy.
“So next we need to start by making a few more basic decisions and then we can go from there.” Pierce paused but no one was stupid enough to argue with him. “From my perspective, I think the first decision we vote on this time is if we’re going to ask a mixed group of volunteers to go through the portal.”
Now we were getting to the good stuff.
The grumpy dragon, Boyd, who was in charge of the locals on the council decided to throw a wrench in the progress. “Another important decision we need to make is if we’re telling the US government what’s happening.”
“The looks are confusion, my mate? Why? Isn’t that reasonable?”
Nothing anyone did around here was reasonable.
Boyd would agree with both of us based on how he rolled his eyes and seemed to think they were idiots. “We’re not our own country no matter what some people seem to believe. We could end up bringing anything from aliens to dinosaurs through that portal. Is that really something we want to surprise people with?”
Boyd paused before rolling his eyes again when they didn’t seem to understand the gravity of the situation. “What would your mothers do if you brought home a fucking dinosaur without warning her?”
“Oh.”
Best. Town. Ever.
They’d even done it in unison.
I was doing great at behaving myself, even ignoring the great ancestors above comment from Daddy, when Kenzie leaned in close to Merritt. “Do you know a spell that would make a light bulb go off over their heads when they do that oh thing?”
Yes!
“No.”
Kenzie’s Daddy was a party pooper, though, and his look made Kenzie sigh. “Never mind.”
“Now, let’s start at the beginning and see what kind of progress we can make before we break for lunch and you all tell everyone that we’ve done nothing but play pretend all day.” Pierce’s glare made me think that was personal because it was the same look he gave some of our relatives when they drove him nuts.
Yep.
One of the Canadian men huffed. “The men at the diner got me. It’s not my fault.”
I loved the diner just as much as I loved the rest of the town…possibly even more.
“It’s understandable.” Pierce must’ve been practicing being nice because he should’ve called Canada guy out. “At least we know it’s an efficient system for distributing information.”
“And we’ll know everyone’s opinions on our decisions by breakfast.” One of the other dragons I hadn’t met shook his head. “If they think we’ve made the wrong decision, we’ll hear about it soon.”
Pierce took that as his cue to keep us moving. “Alright, do we have any logical questions or topics of discussion about the first vote to send a group through the portal?”
Way too many people looked excited for that opening, causing Boyd to glare at them. “He said logical questions. Don’t ask anything stupid.”
“I don’t think that’s a reasonable order, my mate.”
Oops.
Laughing had not been the right reaction to either of them.
Meetings were hard but at least I still had two more coloring pages.
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“I think I’m done going to meetings alone.” Crawling up on Daddy’s lap, I ignored the low words coming from Pierce’s room. He and his mate were cute but Daddy was more important than their silliness. “They keep getting distracted and I’m not sure what I should tell them.”
I was tired of being a boring grown-up and we were at the point where one of the Florida men was just going to wander across the portal to see if they could find a dinosaur.
“My thoughts were similar, my mate.” Daddy kissed my head, snuggling me close. “As were Klynn’s.”
That made me giggle. “There’s no way he wants to come.”
Daddy’s laughter filled my head. “No. He made his thoughts on that understandable in a clear and slightly threatening manner. However, he believes it is time for me to introduce myself and help steer their plans.”
“Pierce is getting tired of having to take charge.” Especially when there weren’t enough real grown-ups around to help make good decisions. “Merritt is really smart but they need more information to work with.”
Daddy’s thinking sounds filled my head but he gave me kisses and good snuggles making being patient easier. “I think we should approach Pierce and Merritt first before going to the council as a whole. They are family and need to understand the situation before strangers.”
Oh yeah.
“And that way his mother can’t complain. She’d be pissed if he wasn’t one of the first to know.” There was going to be so much drama already, I didn’t want to add any. “It’ll be good to have them comfortable with the idea first too. That way it’ll be harder for Florida to panic and do something stupid.”