Plot 5

This is the main plot, which I have been avoiding, I suppose in part because it hasn't quite coalesced in my brain. Knowing a lot of the background details will help though, such as what kind of job he had, and such. Now I just need to work out how he learns about the dragon. How much he stalks the dragon. And why he is so obsessed with the dragon.

First meeting: He has seen the dragon before, but he didn't realize it because he uses many different shapes. But the dragon only owns so many cars, and really isn't a fan of public transportation. Most of his cars are very expensive, so easily remembered, and driven with a manic, almost dangerous, style, though the dragon has reaction speeds beyond that of a human. His first happens sometime before the book, or near the beginning. The dragon is interviewing him about his business, because the dragon wants to know what kind of equipment it will need to keep its humans in good shape in its tunnels below the ground. It is especially obsessed with equipment that will last a long time. Nothing that breaks.

Second meeting: Steven spots someone else driving the car (getting gas), and approaches it. This is sometime after the accident, possibly while he is stalking the teacher's brother. But the person who steps out isn't the person he interviewed before, or so it appears. Instead it is a man who works for the military...airforce? (whomever keeps all the ICBMs). This man shows a moment of recognition on looking at Steven, but that disappears and the man moves away. Steven is curious, but not curious enough to follow the man. He does ask a few questions, but the man just waves him away.

Third meeting: This happens at the Dragon Sworn. They show him a picture of the dragon which Steven recognizes, but they claim it is just one of the dragon's agents. The dragon sworn are so obsessed with the agents and what theythink the agents are doing, that he begins to believe some of what they are saying.

Fourth meeting: After losing his job, Steven begins to believe this dragon character might know more about magic than his teacher seems to. So Steven does a little research and discovers where the car is. So he begins to hang out outside that garage, waiting for the car to move. His car is starting to look a bit run down, because it was vandalized, so it appears to be abandoned. While he is there, the police see him and talk to him. During that time, the dragon appears again and takes off in his car. He is again appearing as a military man. Steven wants to follow the car, but is afraid of driving away from the officer, since the officer might well follow him and he has no desire to get into an accident from a high speed chase. The police officer avoids writing him a ticket, and lets him go with a warning. Steven pulsl away, but the car is gone. Steven can't see it, as it is miles away. He tries to figure out where it might be going. He thinks about where he saw it last, at the gas station. And how there is a military base in that direction.

Disaster: Steven parks outside the miltary base, but not for long. He is detained by several officers and questioned as a suspected terrorist after the soldiers find out he was just causing trouble for the police. Hours later he is released, and exhausted. He is determined now to learn all that the teacher knows, because he is becoming obsessed with the dragon. But the teacher won't teach him any more.

After learning everything the teacher knows, which is the hard to understand piece of paper, Steven breaks into the garage with the car. He is desperate at this point to get a proper teacher and hopes the car will have information on the location of the dragon. He finds nothing but oil change information and other useless paperwork. But he does find a book about the place where they intend on storing nuclear waste. At this point his mind begins piecing thigns together and he believes the dragon is planning nuclear war.


Disaster: Steven hunts down the location, stalking it for weeks beofre he finds the entrance. He only finds it because he sees other people exiting it. He finds a way inside. And he sneaks around, learning all about the base. It appears to be some place that the dragon plans to live after inciting nuclear war. He also finds hundreds of children. It is then that the dragon finds him.

Climax: They confront each other, eventually the truth comes out. The dragon plans on killing Steven to protect his seecret. Steven suggests that he work for the dragon, but the dragon has no use for him. Steven must prove he is useful.

Resolution: Steven stares at the papers, and it finally makes a kind of sense. He does some magic which resolves one of the dragons problems...(what?)