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Cock-a-Doodle Doo!

I was mixing up ingredients for a lemon cake, and out of the third egg dropped a tiny wizened creature. Huge beak and glowing yellow eyes, stubby wings, a drabble of gray and black feathers, outsize claws and a long scaled tail. Mutant? Throwback? It was disgusting, then it spoke. It was the god of reptiles, it said, reborn, It would take care of me if I fed and housed it while it grew. If not...! I fed it red meat. When it reached the size of a Doberman, it moved outside.

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