An extract from the new kids book series 'An Awfully Beastly Business'. To set the the scene they have found a baby dragon that has been killed and they are now performing an autopsy to find out how it died. Just a little warning it's a little icky so don't read if you don't like blood.
Ulf stared as Dr. Feilding ran the chainsaw blade down the underside of the dragon.
Sparks flew from its scales and a mist of dark red blood sprayed Dr. Feilding's white coat.
She cut all the way down through the dragon's belly. It opened like a zip and its guts spilt out. Ulf had never seen anything so repulsive or incredible.
(but wait it gets better)
Plunging her arms inside the dragon, shhe felt the stomach sack, pressing it with her fingertips.
The stomach wall was ripped.
'A rupture of some sort,' she muttered to herself.
'Urgh! It stinks,' Ulf said, getting a waft of the dragon's last meal.
Dr. Feilding reached into the stomach and pulled out a half-digested mountain lion.
'It didn't die of starvation, then,' ulf said. He was pinching his nose. He watched as Doctor Feilding picked up a metal crowbar from among the tools and began prising open the dragon's ribcage.
She climbed inside the chest cavity and checked the lungs.
Ok I'll stop there, it goes on like this for another chapter and I think you get the picture. ;)
Aren't kids books super these days? =P
Don't get me wrong it's a good book, and the illustrations are top notch (though Doctor Feilding looked rather more manical with her chainsaw in the illustration preceeding the text (and she's meant ot be the good guy too) than she should be.
But then again the animal was dead and it was WAS techincally a make believe creature, but I'm sure it would be different if the book was writing about her chainsawing a living human haha! But then again I haven't finished reading the book so she might very well end up doing so for all I know!
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