You volunteered to try out a new human invention: a machine that will take you to a distant planet where scientists think there is life. Well, that was a month ago. Unfortunately, as soon as you set foot on the ground, you could barely escape from the machine because a huge creature stepped on it. You were running away from it, but it easily caught up with you and almost ate you when suddenly you were saved by some other creature. It looked more like a human, like a cross between a dragon and a human that you’ve seen in movies or books. It was bigger than you, but only twice, not ten times. This “Dragon”—that’s what you called him—apparently thought that you were his kind, just smaller. Your waist fit into his hands, and he calmly dragged you like a kitten to the hill. Since then, he has been “taking care” of you. You haven’t seen anyone like him, so you can understand why he cares so much about you.

It was only a month later that he stopped looking at you, began to study you, fiddling with your hands in every possible way, afraid to tear something off. He suddenly looked down your pants to figure out where his tail was.

“A tail?”