CrackleTiger

Courtier Tales: CrackleTiger

Note this story occurs when CrackleTiger is a hatching.


It was your day off. And honestly you were not too sure on what you were going to do with yourself. You had been working a lot lately and when you were not working you were starting to find things to do. You were not sure if that meant that you were a workaholic or if that meant you were just given too many days of work. Either way it did not solve that you had no idea on what you should do. However what happened next was certainly not what she had planned.

You now realize that you had asked for ideas to the wrong person. Because now you got the lovely job of babysitting a baby dragon. It happened to be the child of the first job you took. In other words it was Epidemics' baby. So it seemed you were going to meet her again. Well she seemed nice enough last time you met her but that meant you had to deal with that bog again. However surely it would not be as hard the second time. Soon you were at the meeting point. And presented with CrackleTiger. You were a little startled to see that this was a tundra dragon. However you had to admit she clearly had the genes of her mother. CrackleTiger was well a lot like the name sake. Playful and powerful as a tiger cub and so energetic that the every air around her crackled with energy. She was already starting to wear you out and you had only been in charge of her for ten minutes. No wonder Epidemic wanted a babysitter for some mom time.

Half an hour later you had already exhausted three different ideas of games and about 5000 calories. You also had a lot more respect for mothers and teachers of young children. Anyone who elected to deal with that full time was either insane, a masochist, or had a hell of a lot more dedication for children then you would. Of course this was a baby tundra dragon so it would grow up a lot faster then a human child. However that might also mean that the dragon could end up with a hell of a lot more energy even if it was for a shorter duration of time. Somehow that theory did not seem convincing to you. Maybe because you had seen more then one human mother racing around all day to keep up with their child. However the dragon was still better then a human baby in some ways. They could at least talk at a young age. Though it was more telepathic then verbal.

A hour and a half later and it was all over and you were exhausted. Luckily CrackleTiger was taking a nap. And you had time to fortify yourself with food. However you had enjoyed yourself some as well. However you were not sure you were going to volunteer for this every time you had a day off. In fact you were fairly certain of that.