Isaac reads Chapter 8 of How To Be a Pirate, where a tiny dragon called a natter gets lost in Caliban Caves and is killed by a massive, centuries-old cavern creature with sludgy tentacles that has never seen light. A dark passage about vulnerability and predatory danger in unknown depths.
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Chapter 8. Meanwhile, in a cavern deep, deep underground. Meanwhile, in a cavern deep, deep underground, a small deadly natter was crying for its mother. It had wandered away from its home in the cozy tunnels of the dragon nursery and lost itself in the maze of the Caliban Caves below. Gradually, as it flapped frantically down wrong turn after wrong turn, happy hissing and squawking of its fellow dragons had grown fainter and fainter. For the last hour it had heard only the unhappy echoes of itself as it crept deeper and deeper into the blackness. What is more, it had the bad luck to stumble into a cavern inhabited by a gigantic creature who was guarding something precious. This was a far larger and scarier killing machine than a mere skellion. It was at least 100 years old, and living for a century in such gloomy depths had done very little for its soul or its brain. It was lonely and bitter, and it had a longing for the light, which it had never seen. But most of all, it was permanently hungry. The little natter cried for its mother again and hopped a bit farther forward. A singular, unattractive, sludgy tentacle curled its way around the small dragon and lifted it into the air. The creature did something to the natter to kill it. Something most unpleasant, and the poor little animal let out a last shriek of absolute terror. And then all was silence.
