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OrchidofStone
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Unnamed (we’ll call him Chiron)
(I hope I got the info right)
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There was something chilly about the dead butterfly. The blue on the wing was still as bright and timeless as the sky, yet it lay cold and lifeless against the leaf litter.
Chiron considered it a moment more, and looked up to the reds and yellows that exploded across the leaves above him. The sun was still warm against his back and the wind was gentle beneath his wings, but he didn’t let it fool him.
“You think too much about trees,” Medea would say to him when he got back. “Get back to your desk, Chiron, you’ve been gone long enough. Those scrolls wont inventory themselves, you know.”
But Chiron knew better. The trees were telling him something, something they felt deep within their roots. That winter would be early this year, the hunting bitter, and that communication with other Flights would be broken up in sheets of ice. The trees were screaming without voices, with a firework of colored leaves too bright and violent to be natural.
Only the butterfly seemed to have listened.
Better to die young and whole, it seemed to say,
than live with frozen wings.
Chiron unfurled his own wings, letting them warm in the sunlight.
The trees knew. The butterfly knew. Medea wouldn’t listen, but he had to know.
I have to try, Chiron thought as he took to the skies.
One last time.
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I saw this and thought I’d give it a try. It’s a bit short, but I guess we’ll see. In any case, thanks for the opportunity to write for a dragon, even if I don’t end up with it.