A Pocketful of Tears (Dragon series Book Two)
By Pamela Lamb
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What are dragon's tears? They look like tiny pearls and they are the most precious substance on the face of the earth. What do they do? They make you feel brave when you are stuck in the smelly cave of the bad, black dragon Grendel. But Briony will need more than a pocketful of tears to get her out of this mess. It's a good thing she has her very own dragon to come to the rescue.
Pamela Lamb
Must ... stop ... writing ... Sometimes I really wish I could. It gets in the way of real life. At the weekend I prefer sitting in front of the computer with my pretend friends instead of going out with my real ones. It destroys my sleep. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night knowing I need to change one word in the paragraph I wrote the evening before - and I have to get up and do it. And it makes me a dangerous driver. Get me on the road and my characters start having conversations in my head. And why are they so much more lucid and logical then than when I attempt to scribble them down at the next red light?I write because I love language. I love English with its collection of mongrel words. It's like an enormous button box where you can pick between half a dozen languages each one of which holds the history of Britain at its heart. I love the shape of words and the sound of them. I love what you can make them do on the page. And what you can make them do to your readers. Laugh, cry, stay up at night.What I like best is having a conversation with a reader about one of my characters. The reader talks about my character as if s/he is a real person. Discusses the character's motivation. Speculates about what the character did after the end of the novel. And I think, but it's all made up. Every bit of it. Out of my head.Then I know it is all worthwhile. Bringing characters alive to walk on the page. Creating a world for them to live in. Immersing myself in the shape and rhythm of a novel in the making. It's exciting stuff. And it's even more exciting when the book is finished and I hand it over to you, the reader. Enjoy!
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A Pocketful of Tears (Dragon series Book Two) - Pamela Lamb
A Pocketful of Tears
Pamela Lamb
Published by Agneau Press at Smashwords
Copyright 2012 Pamela Lamb
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Chapter 1
When Briony found Gryff at the bottom of her garden she didn’t know anything about dragons. How could she? She was just an ordinary girl living in Brisbane and going to school every day, just like everyone else. She soon discovered that Gryff didn’t like getting wet, didn’t eat food and didn’t have a clue about human behaviour. What a pair! But, according to Briony’s granny, the two of them had to learn to get along because Briony was a magic girl and Gryff was her dragon. In fact, they were destined to be together.
Briony soon found out that Gryff could make her wishes come true, but it wasn’t as easy as she thought to get the things she really wanted. And Gryff was no help. He just granted every wish she made, whether she meant it or not. Which is how the biggest bag of lollies in the world ended up on the oval at Briony’s school. Not such a good idea when the teachers came along! After one of Briony’s wishes, a boy called Georgie moved into her house.
Georgie had come from the olden days and he found it difficult to settle down to life in the twenty-first century. For a start, he’d never heard of electricity. He thought there was a man in the fridge who turned the light on whenever the door was opened. And he thought buses were monsters roaring up and down the streets all day.
After a while Georgie decided he didn’t want to live with Briony any more. He wanted to go back to the olden days. He asked Briony to make a wish for him. Briony had a couple of days to think of a wish that would be exactly right for Georgie. This is the wish Briony made:
I wish Georgie to go:
Somewhere he’ll feel at home,
Somewhere he can find adventure,
Somewhere his talents are appreciated,
And where there are people who love him.
As soon as she said the wish out loud, Georgie disappeared.
Briony had to admit the house was not the same with Georgie gone. It didn’t help that she was coming home from school every afternoon to a seriously bored dragon. All Gryff wanted to do was go on wishes. He didn’t like being told that Briony had homework to do. Finally it was Friday night. Mum was at work doing a late shift at the nursing home. Briony and Gryff were sitting on Granny’s bed. The little dragon was making himself useful toasting muffins: puff! puff! front and back. He was hoping his good behaviour would persuade Briony to take him on a little wish. After all, she didn’t have to get up early for school in the morning.
What Gryff didn’t know was that Briony had already thought about what she wanted to do that night. All week she had been worrying about the wish she’d made for Georgie. It had seemed perfectly fine at the time but, deep down at the bottom of Briony’s mind, there was a doubt. Where had Georgie gone? Was he safe? Was he happy? If only I knew he was all right, she thought, then I could stop worrying about him.
When she had eaten the last muffin Briony said, ‘Gryff, can we go and see Georgie?’
Gryff was having a little nap to recover from all his puffing but he opened one eye and blinked at Briony.
‘Go and see Georgie? Whatever for?’
‘To make sure he’s all right.’
Gryff shut his eye. ‘Of course he’s all right. Why wouldn’t he be?’ Up popped the eye again. ‘Oh, I see. You’re worried about your wish.’
Briony nodded. ‘I did try very hard with that wish, but maybe I got it wrong.’
Gryff opened his other eye. He stood up and stretched. He yawned, showing the red inside of his mouth.
‘It would be better than nothing, I suppose.’
Granny reached out her old, dry hand and patted Gryff’s warm scales. ‘Briony is a good girl to want to visit her friend,’ she said. ‘Now why don’t you lie down next to me, Sir Gryff, while she goes and gets ready?’
Gryff lay down on Granny’s quilt and tucked his long snout under the gold scarf that held his wings in place. ‘All this fuss just to go on a wish,’ he said sleepily. ‘I expect she is going to change her skin and pack all sorts of food and drink. Another reason why it is so much better to be a dragon.’
Of course, Gryff was quite right. Briony did need to change her clothes. Out of her school uniform into a pair of jeans and a striped tee-shirt. She didn’t know what the weather would be like where Georgie was, so she packed a jumper at the bottom of her school port. She pulled a woolly hat over her short, blond hair to keep her ears warm. Briony lived in Queensland, and Queensland kids are not used to having cold ears.
Then she set to work to pack some food. When she first started going on wishes with Gryff, Briony hadn’t taken any food and she had been very hungry indeed. In prehistory there had been nothing to eat except pond weed that the dinosaurs seemed to like very much. Fortunately, she and Gryff managed to get back home before Briony had to eat it, too.
And then there had been Captain Carruther’s roast chicken she’d eaten on the ship that was attacked by pirates. That was when she’d first met Georgie. Briony felt bad about the chicken later when Captain Carruthers went down with his ship, as captains are supposed to do.
After the ship sank, she and Georgie managed to reach a desert island where she ate more fish and coconuts than she really wanted. Desert islands might sound very good in theory but they are not that great when you find yourself