Mom walked me out to the barn with her arm around me. I had hoped I could handle all of this on my own. I wanted to impress my mom with a healthy dragon. Instead she was going to see a sick dragon that I hadn’t been able to help.
We walked into the barn and I stopped. I rubbed my eyes. “Whoa.”
Marshmallow was walking around. He had bright eyes. And he was at least twice as big as he’d been this morning! How did that happen? Dragons must grow really quickly.
Sassafras was about to walk into the pen, but froze. I think he was also shocked to see how big our little guy had gotten! Marshmallow trotted over and nuzzled Sassafras, who purred loudly. The two of them jumped around and played while I stared in awe.
Mom squeezed me in a big hug. “Zoey, I’m so proud. You kept trying even when things got hard. How about we leave these two to play and see if we can convince your dad to part with some more fish?”
Just like that, the day went from awful to wonderful. I did it! Even though I made some mistakes along the way, I helped Marshmallow.