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Storm-Dragon

Storm-Dragon by Dave Freer

Skut, cutting school on a perilous planet, finds himself rescuing a small storm-dragon.

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enter an iris

I hadn't meant there to be irises in this scene.

And when I added them, they seemed to be local color, to distract the heroine by making the  scene normal.

Then one turned black.  And it dawned on me that a black flower will alert her to every manifestation of this problem in the course of the work.

At least it gives her some warning once she figures it out.