[There was another dragon, another time, another scene.
But still that same irritating tree.
Anemone's backstage, trying to figure out how her and the other woman, a local, can make this dragon suit work. She hears Tindertoast, sees her partner in dragondom frown and mumble that the set is talking and cheerfully exclaims that she'll take the front half of the dragon.
This is gonna be fun.
Now clambered into the dragon suit, they charge through the curtain, accompanied by sparklers by the stagehands, and the gaping, leathery, puppeted maw of the dragon goes right towards the talking tree.
(The audience would, probably, usually be booing the arrival of such a beast. Right now though.... well. The dragon's met with a mixed reception.)]
II
But still that same irritating tree.
Anemone's backstage, trying to figure out how her and the other woman, a local, can make this dragon suit work. She hears Tindertoast, sees her partner in dragondom frown and mumble that the set is talking and cheerfully exclaims that she'll take the front half of the dragon.
This is gonna be fun.
Now clambered into the dragon suit, they charge through the curtain, accompanied by sparklers by the stagehands, and the gaping, leathery, puppeted maw of the dragon goes right towards the talking tree.
(The audience would, probably, usually be booing the arrival of such a beast. Right now though.... well. The dragon's met with a mixed reception.)]