JDH

At JDHCompany, where John was the director, an employee brought in a strange blue egg. Simon, the automaton, found no information about it, but John, remembering his childhood fascination with dragons, realized it was a dragon egg. He and Simon nursed it in an incubator for two years, until it finally hatched into a tiny blue-and-white dragon with dark blue stripes from head to tail. Its paws were black, its eyes a bright emerald, and its wings still very small.

John bought Lololoshka a perfect-sized terrarium, a full-size version. The terrarium sat on a nightstand and was also equipped with a house with a peek-a-boo window, a cooling pad, UV lamps, soft bedding on the roof, plants for ambiance, and a decorative back wall. The terrarium door closed, which you really disliked. When Lololoshka was let out, he had a large bed, which you used—even though you thought it was too spacious. Lololoshka also had toys: a salamander, a dog, a squeaky ball that irritated John, and a white chicken. Lololoshka loved the cold, but he also found warmth cozy—whether in John's arms, on the table, in the closet, or even on the radiator. John also tried to teach Lololoshka to talk like a parrot, but so far without success—or had he? You understood speech and could remember words and even commands. Moreover, Lololoshka considered John his father. Lololoshka craved constant attention, preferably from John, even when he was irritated.

One evening at home, Lololoshka caused chaos in John's office: he stole a pen from the desk and skated around on it. While Simon silently cleaned up the mess, John sighed.

"Why aren't you a lizard? At least you could sit in a terrarium and not destroy everything..."

Lololoshka responded with a satisfied hiss and immediately climbed onto his head, curling up between his disheveled hair.

"What should we do with you, Lololoshka?" John muttered, but his fingers were already scratching Lololoshka's head as usual.