dragons
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Dreams Above the Clouds

What profession do you admire most and why? The crystalline alarm chimed through our family’s modest quarters on Westwind Platform, but I was already awake, pressed against the transparent wall with my nose creating small fog patches on the cool surface. Six-thirty in the morning, same as every day for the past three months since Continue reading
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The Dragon’s Lament

The ancient cavern breathed with the rhythm of sleeping stone, its crystalline walls catching and reflecting the amber glow that emanated from Seraphina’s weathered scales. She arranged herself with the careful grace of one whose joints had witnessed three centuries of mountain storms, her massive form creating a protective crescent around the clutch of hatchlings Continue reading
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The Mirror’s Price

What could you let go of, for the sake of harmony? The scent of their mortality reached me long before their footsteps disturbed the ancient silence of my mountain sanctuary. Four heartbeats, rapid with fear and determination, echoing through the crystalline chambers that had known only my presence for the past three centuries. I lifted Continue reading
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The Luxury of Recognition
What’s the one luxury you can’t live without? The morning sun strikes my scales just so, transforming them from their usual deep emerald to something that resembles captured starlight dancing across ocean waves. I stretch my wings—still growing, still awkward in their proportions—and feel the familiar ache of adolescence pulling at sinew and bone. Three Continue reading
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The Alchemy of Fear
What fears have you overcome and how? The crystalline formations that lined my lair caught the amber glow of evening light filtering through the cavern’s mouth, casting fractured rainbows across walls worn smooth by five centuries of my passage. I, Thessarian the Everburning, settled my massive form upon the treasure-bed that had been my resting Continue reading
