Dani was so grateful for the purple dragon saving her from the mother warthog, she had a treat for it the next morning. She woke up with the dragon sleeping next to her. She regarded it carefully, and noticed that it had definitely grown in the last several weeks. It was the size of a medium dog now, and she immediately looked up at the window. The window wasn't huge, but the dragon was going to be able to still get in for a while... but what about after that?
She gently waked the dragon, and produced some ham which she had sneaked from dinner last night. The dragon sniffed it, and quickly gobbled it down with one bite.
"What are you eating out there?" Dani asked with a laugh, "You certainly are not eating mother wart hogs, are you!" The dragon just briefly licked its chops, and gazed back at Dani.
"Anyway, thank you for saving me yesterday. I didn't know what I was going to do. That mother warthog was just trying to protect it's baby you know... I'm glad you stopped attacking it. You are such a good dragon." Dani smiled as she stroked the dragon's neck and back.
After the dragon flew away as it usually did when it was time for Dani's breakfast, she headed out again to the woods, keeping a sharp eye out for mother warthogs and their young.
She played a game of hide and seek by herself. She had a small, knotty stick, and would hide it behind a tree or next to a rock, and then pretend to look for it, as if she didn't know where it was. On her third time looking for her stick, she was just about to "find it" in a bush she had put it a minute earlier, when it wasn't there!
Dani stopped, and looked more closely. It wasn't on, under, or anywhere near the bush she had put it.
Pushing her dark hair out of her eyes, she looked around the area trying to figure out where her stick went. Then there was a scraping noise near some rocks a few feet away.
"Hello?" Dani called, as she walked towards the rocks, where the noise stopped. She stepped around the rocks, and there was the purple dragon, with her stick at it's feet, looking at Dani.
A huge smile broke from Dani's face. "Hi!" She said. "Well, now what?!"
Suddenly the dragon grabbed the stick in it's claws, and flew past a couple trees, putting the stick under some roots. Dani chased it laughing. "I see what you are doing! Let me close my eyes this time, and you can hide it properly."
Dani and the purple dragon played this way for a long time that day. It was very easy to find the stick, because, after hiding it, the dragon was always sitting next to it.
"You are a smart, and good dragon." Dani praised it, after having one of the best afternoons in the woods in her life.
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