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Kumiko and the Dragon - Briony Stewart
Chapter one
My Obasaan told me the story of the dragon that used to visit her at night. A small white one, she said, head as big as a dog, long and snake-like, but with the snout of a pig. She said that instead of scales it had soft fur, and it used to lace about her window at night, like a kite fluttering in the breeze.
‘It was always gone by the morning,’ she said, ‘but it would return again at night, every night, until I turned fifteen. Then I grew bored with it. I thought it was pesky. I opened my window and cried Shoo!
and it did what I said. I never saw it again.’
I listen to my Obasaan, my heart beating furiously. If only it was that easy to get rid of a monster. If only I were that brave! As I sit at her feet I want to tell her that I understand, I want her to put her old arms around me and tell me what to do. But I know I cannot say a thing.
Mother sends me to bed after a shared pot of tea with Obasaan. I plead with her, as I often do, to let me stay up later or to let me sleep in her bed.
‘No, no, Kumiko,’ Mother growls. ‘Stop being silly. You are perfectly safe in your own bed. You are almost nine years old!’
Mother doesn’t care! I think to myself.
After I wash my feet, I climb the stairs to my bedroom. Each step makes my heart beat a little more quickly and I wish so much to not be afraid. The darkness of my bedroom is getting closer. I am standing in front of my bedroom door ...
This room has not always been my bedroom. I moved into it this year when my little sister, Arisu, was born. She got my old room downstairs next to Mother and Father’s room. I like that room better.
I leave the door open as I jump under the