Quotes from Chris d'Lacey

ZANNA IN THE GARDEN

was trilling out of his phone again. Another female. Another problem.

Because you're not a handsome young man." "Well, neither is he!

Leaning forward, Bergstrom said, "I'm asking you. Come on, give me a folk legend. Anything. You have to have a story hidden away somewhere." David shook his head. "You're not serious, surely?" Bergstrom studied him carefully for a moment. "You forget, I live and work among the Inuit. Stories

I don't know — yet. But Lorel wouldn't say it without good reason. Don't look now, but there's a squirrel on the fence." David turned his head. A pepper-gray squirrel was balancing neatly on the flat bar between two railing hoops. "Oh, wow. It's Snigger — I think." Chuk! went the squirrel, flagging its tail. It lifted one paw and appeared to smile.

The latter refers to the dragon element only of the pair, when the two are physically separated.