It wasn't an illusion oh, oh no...

Lying in bed, I heard the noise outside.

I lay and tried to figure out what it was.

I'd heard noises before and imagined the worst. There was the night of the Railway Sleeper scraper, when I thought there was some metal eating monster outside, slowly making its way along the road munching its way through everything in its past.

There was the morning of the invasion, where everyone and everything was being destroyed by the monstrous invaders; but instead it was a dredger in the harbour, trailing its pulling equipment.

So by previous encounters, despite me thinking it was probably alien invasion, I knew that it was probably the road cleaner, or the wheelie bin washer.

I peered through a crack in the curtain... oh god. it wasn't either of them... the dragon's mad red eye stared straight at me, and I watched in horror as it's nostrils flared......