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The shack sat back from the shore on a little side bayou and was being slowly crushed by the curling fingers of a mangrove fist, but it would do for now, and Vern had it set up pretty nice with a generator and some of the basics. V ern spent his nights in a fishing shack on Boar Island, which had been abandoned sometime in the midd le of the last century. Not to men- tion the fact that gators had no personalities to speak of and were uglier than the ass end of a coyote. Maybe the alligators were close enough to him on the D NA spectrum, but no matter h ow mu ch vodka he consumed, V ern could not drin k hi mself into believing that he wouldn’ t be tak ing advanta ge of a dumber species. And once or twice he’d got as far as a little nuzzling on the mudflats, which was not a euphemism for anything. God knows they were lining up for a shot at the king. 󰀳 about fifty per cent of the blues away, but there were always those nights with the full moon lighting up the catspaws on the Pearl River when Vern thought about making a move on a female alligator. Still, it got lonely being the last dragon.

A guy had plenty of time to meditate floating around the swamp’s little feeder tribs. He often did, but mindfulness helped with that. He also wa sn’ t feeling suicida l just at the moment. And if that was the case, then he owed it to his species to stay alive as long as possible. After all, Ve rn was the last of h is kind, far as he knew. And his opinion was the only one that mattered, in his opinion. Shining a spotlight on your own head was the behaviour of an idiot, in Vern’s opinion.

But putting the heat on tourists would bring the heat on him, and Vern hadn’t got to the age he was now by drawing attenti on to hi mself. So he spent his days in the bayou blending in with the locals, staying downwind of the swamp tours, though there were days he longed to cut loose and barbeque a barge full of those happy snappy morons. And it was truly amazing what common gators could achieve with the right motivation. , Vern often told them in not so many words.