Kes looked thoughtful.
"What were they killers of?" she asked innocently, rising onto her knees and looking at the book upside down as if this might give her the answer. "Beside, aren't wolves called the same thing? Maybe they were just hungry."
Seeming to have the organised in her head, her looked to the ceilng.
"Dragons are very cool," she added, thinking of a book he'd once shown her. "I would love to see one."
It was easy to say such things, though she didn't think of it that way. When you could only imagine what something was like, it was hard to think seriously of it.
She looked to the sky outside. It was clear, not yet dark.
"One more," she said, fixing him with a smile.