Day 28. I haven't written anything down lately because we have been so busy. There have

been a lot of red sightings. Apparently they are the most common, at least in this region.

We haven't actually caught one, which is good as far as I'm concerned.

But it is making the pirates a bit touchy.

I have been trying to raise their spirits with a lot of dragon-catching songs,

though I would rather be writing Save the Dragon songs.

There was a green dragon sighted day over a thick forest.

This was a major deal.

The greens are always really common in books and movies,

but in real life, they are super rare. Trust me, seeing a green was terribly exciting. We sailed low over the trees chasing it, and all of a sudden, there were bullets ricocheting everywhere.

We couldn't see anyone in the forest, but someone down there was shooting at us with guns.

They sounded like elephant guns.

I was terrified.

One of those bullets could have made my girl fatherless.

That thought kept my head down, almost to the deck.

Luckily, the dragon got away.

Thank goodness.

Something that beautiful and majestic deserves to live a long and happy life.

But don't tell Murphy I said that.

I'm really hoping that the fact we haven't managed a bag of dragon yet

will make the pirates give up and go home soon.

I am so tired of flying.

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