A Logical Conclusion

The boy looks out the window. That's always the trouble, looking out the window. Looking out, and seeing what else is out there. And let me tell you, once you see what else is out there, it's nearly impossible to stay inside. And that's just on a day where you see birds. This little boy, he sees a dragon. How many seconds do you think he stays inside? 

    If you guessed two and a half seconds, you would have guessed half a second too long. The perk of having a window that opens onto a roof is that the time it takes to fling it open and jump through it is never longer than two seconds.

    Which is to say, in less than no time the boy is on the roof, looking at the spot where the dragon has been moments before. 

    The dragon is still there, hovering.

    It says nothing.

    But just as the boy is about to continue staring open-mouthed while, coincidentally, also saying nothing, the dragon winks. 

    If you've ever seen a dragon wink before, then you know what happens next. You know the story.

    Boy follows dragon to enchanted forest. Boy winds up meeting bigger dragons. Bigger dragons take boy on quest. Boy saves dragons through daring and cunning. Boy ends up back in bed.

    It's all pretty straightforward after that: the boy wakes up, sees there are no dragons, and gets up and goes to school, just like all the other days before having seen dragons.

    Right?

    Wrong. What do they teach in schools these days?

    That doesn't happen. Of course not. There's another adventure. The boy has to have another adventure.

    He has to find the dragons again.

    Or, at the very least, the enchanted forest.

    He'll never stop looking.

    Right?

    Well. Anyway. It would only be logical. 

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