![]() ![]() DragonCon had fewer of them than most large conventions, partly due to the wizards’ cooperation spells, but mostly to fandom in general being self-policing. One of the biggest problems they had was playful fans setting off alarm after alarm that caused the big buildings to be evacuated and the fire trucks summoned, incurring increasingly large fees from an increasingly irritated fire marshall. Regina would have loved to crisp the creature into a slagged heap with a burst of flame, but she was afraid of setting off the smoke detectors. Impossibly narrow neck and waist joined the three segments of its body together. ![]() Its eyes took up almost half of his head, and the mandibles took up almost all the rest. He dropped his own disguise and stood up on his hind legs, all four fore-limbs preparing to take on the enemy. The fire ant reacted with typical insect swiftness. She cursed at the sound of her favorite blouse tearing up the back as the scales of her spine thrust through the cloth. Regina turned and ran toward the intruder, changing in mid-stride from human to dragon. Plenty of room, Regina thought, just as the door slammed open again. ![]() Luckily, the hundreds of chairs stored in there were piled up in stacks of ten and twelve near the back wall. ![]() The emergency lights cast a grim yellow glow over the carpeted expanse. ![]()
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