Author P.O.V.
............A few days earlier in the Taconic Range of the Appalachian Mountains
The highest point in Connecticut is on the southern slope of Mount Frissell, which is part of the Taconic Range.
The dragon stirred.
It raised its head through the leafy mound. It opened first one, then the other large, lazy blood-shot eye. Mother Nature was bringing to the land light winds and soft rains.
The dragon had slept out the winter in the hole which it had carefully chosen a hundred days ago. Its mouth, which had not opened to for air all that time, stank with the accumulated odor of a hundred days and nights. On the day before, it had consisted of two lambs which had strayed too far from their mother and then the mother.
Now the dragon was hungry.
Overwhelmingly and immediat
