"Hmm, my body doesn't seem to have changed much. My wings are still so short, and my hind legs... my hind legs seem a tiny bit thicker. Not bad, not bad—this is a good start! My head... my head seems to have gotten a little bigger too. Isn't that right, Xuegao?"
"Gah?"
"All right, I'm just talking to myself. You don't need to interrupt. Come, turn your head so I can take a closer look... It really did get bigger. The patterns on your scales have changed. I remember clearly—the scale patterns beneath your eyes weren't like this before. Now the patterns have spread out!"
After confirming that Little Dream Dragon's legs had thickened, his head had grown bigger, and his scales were growing as well, Russell was overjoyed.
He had been worried that Little Dream Dragon might simply be this small. Dragons were far too mysterious, especially since this one was a Dream Dragon—he had no idea whether Little Dream Dragon was a juvenile dragon or a miniature dragon.
Now he could rest easy. No matter what, Little Dream Dragon was still growing.
Suddenly.
He noticed the pair of horns on Little Dream Dragon's head. "Eh!"
"Gah?"
"Lower your head, Xuegao. Let me look at your horns... This, this is a fork!" Russell laughed. "Xuegao, the horns on your head have forked! See? About three-quarters of the way up from the base, there's a little branch!"
Whether his legs had thickened, his head had grown, or his scale patterns had changed was still not quite obvious enough.
But now that he could see Little Dream Dragon's horns branching out, Russell could be one hundred percent certain that Little Dream Dragon was truly growing.
Little Dream Dragon's horns had once been two curved horns without any branches.
"Gah gah." Little