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Description
A new try at the damn Venusian Dragon (see [link] ) for an earlier try.
Some changes from the earlier one are a sprawling posture, a fourth set of eyes (actually a baby peeking out from the marsupial-like pouch formed by its mothers oral cavity) and a more interesting color scheme.

Here's the original description

Dragon (Heinlein): Beside the queue was sprawled the big, ungainly saurian form of a Venerian "dragon." The dragon swiveled one fluttering eyestalk in his direction. Strapped to the "chest" of the creature, between its forelegs and immediately below and in reach of its handling tendrils, was a small box, a voder. The tendrils writhed over the keys and the Venerian answered him, via mechanical voder speech, rather than by whistling in his own language. The dragon reared up on six sturdy legs and climbed aboard. He moved over to the dragon's chin, braced his feet against the deck plates and shoved, thus exposing the Venerian's nostril plate, which was located under the creature's head in the folds of his neck. Granted that Draco Veneris Wilsonii is a civilized race, to stick one's head and shoulders between those rows of teeth seemed to be inviting a breach in foreign relations.

Another passage: Don knew that she was young as her rear pair of eyestalks were still buds; she could not have been more than a Venus century old. He stared at Sir Isaac and eight blank, oscillating eyes looked back at him.

What do you all think?

Done while listening to: The Appeal (okay) What's New (also okay)

Description
A new try at the damn Venusian Dragon (see [link] ) for an earlier try.
Some changes from the earlier one are a sprawling posture, a fourth set of eyes (actually a baby peeking out from the marsupial-like pouch formed by its mothers oral cavity) and a more interesting color scheme.

Here's the original description

Dragon (Heinlein): Beside the queue was sprawled the big, ungainly saurian form of a Venerian "dragon." The dragon swiveled one fluttering eyestalk in his direction. Strapped to the "chest" of the creature, between its forelegs and immediately below and in reach of its handling tendrils, was a small box, a voder. The tendrils writhed over the keys and the Venerian answered him, via mechanical voder speech, rather than by whistling in his own language. The dragon reared up on six sturdy legs and climbed aboard. He moved over to the dragon's chin, braced his feet against the deck plates and shoved, thus exposing the Venerian's nostril plate, which was located under the creature's head in the folds of his neck. Granted that Draco Veneris Wilsonii is a civilized race, to stick one's head and shoulders between those rows of teeth seemed to be inviting a breach in foreign relations.

Another passage: Don knew that she was young as her rear pair of eyestalks were still buds; she could not have been more than a Venus century old. He stared at Sir Isaac and eight blank, oscillating eyes looked back at him.

What do you all think?

Done while listening to: The Appeal (okay) What's New (also okay)