Tiamat is growing at an astonishing pace.
It doesn’t take long for Jeremy to become very fond of Tiamat and for her to become devoted to him. They do not talk to one another using words but send pictures to another instead. He also discovers that he and the dragon can communicate telepathically. Carefully he feeds the baby raw liver and milk, and he names her. Luckily the care sheet which once told Jeremy how to hatch the egg now tells him how to care for the baby dragon. Sure enough the creature that emerges is indeed a baby dragon. the egg – for that is what it is - begins to hatch. So he takes the ball outside at night when the moon is full and stays with it for three hours. Surely this is a joke? Can the ball really be a dragon’s egg? Not really believing what he has read Jeremy ends up following the instructions on the care sheet. When Jeremy gets home he takes a look at the care sheet and is astonished to read the words “How to Hatch a Dragon’s Egg” at the top of the paper. He sells the boy the ball for twenty-five cents and he gives Jeremy a care sheet to go with it. Elives does not want to sell the ball to Jeremy but after the boy holds the ball, the old man changes his mind. The shop is full of strange and bizarre things but the one object which he cannot take his eyes off is a shining multi-colored ball. He finds himself looking at a shop called “Elives’ Magic Shop,” and being a curious boy he decides to go in. This is pretty odd because his town is very small and he thought he knew his way around all the streets. He takes some back roads and he ends up in a place that he has never seen before.
So after school, after the embarrassing episode in art class, Jeremy runs home as fast as his legs will take him.
Jeremy Thatcher is determined that Mary Lou Hutton is not going to get to kiss him.
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