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He and his co so bold as to atte that he was being watched even when he couldn’t actually spot either of the dragons

And then there were the gifts

Money had finally gotten tight enough that he was now playing his guitar in locations frequently traveled by cruise ship tourists More than once, he’d found that people had dropped twenty euro bills into his guitar case Tourists didn’t toss in bills Only coins And no one mistook a twenty euro note Not repeatedly

One of the dragons had obviously done that, but he couldn’t figure out how he’d otten a human to drop it in his case?

Part of hiht they could buy hirateful for the cash It guaranteed he had a roof over his head and food in his belly for a little while longer

And then there were the socks

A day earlier, he’d been in the park filling out another round of applications, trying to keep an eye out for those dairl ran up and dropped a brown paper bag on the table before running away again with a giggle

Ju to his feet, he’d turned around, sure this had to be the doing of those dragons, but there was no sign of the to find thick wool socks with black and grey stripes A short note accompanied them

The evenings are cold

~Baldewin

Tori had nearly laughed aloud Cold? This was nothing The tehts in Nuorgaon

But still…the socks Money was easy It didn’t require any deep thought or planning The socks, on the other hand, were different

This Baldewin had to think about whether Tori was comfortable Maybe he knew there was no carpet in his roo barefoot across the tile floor The dragon had picked out these particular thick, soft socks for hiirl so Tori couldn’t possibly turn hiain

It was a s hard against the lump that foriven hiotten a fehen he was a kid froay and a ic