Ortus

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Ortus felt like a lot was wrong from beginning

For starters, he was born as a she, which really didn’t make sense, especially when they started telling him to, “act like a lady.”

Eventually they changed their phrasing, but only because then he was a viable suitor for Principium.

Speaking of Principium, she was engaged to him. She was not awful but he did not love her. They met once before their engagement and she had asked him what he wanted to do with his life. He had never been asked. He said he wanted to travel all around Sornieth, experience it all. She had wanted to stay still, to spend her life focusing on one place.

He couldn’t live like that. Even in those nights he would grow restless opting to go to the forest or just somewhere different for comfort.

So naturally he ran away.

I mean he had read about it in books, why not?



It was three days before the marriage and four days after Principium had moved in with him though she was in a different wing. In the dead of night was when he decided to run away. He crept down the long hallways careful not to wake a soul.

Finally he made it out, he ran with the kingdom’s walls behind him finally and the moonlight bouncing off his dark scales.

CRASH

Suddenly he was on the ground, panting as the other dragon he had just crashed into lay besides him. He turned his head to see who it was.

Principium.

Rule following, would never leave the castle, not very interesting Principium. Just great. He brushed himself off and prepared to leave her when she tugged on his tail.

“Wait” she said it so softly he wasn’t sure if it wasn’t just the wind. “Please wait, I don’t know what I’m doing, we can go separate ways eventually but I need help to get far far away from here quickly.”

He didn’t have time to consider, he could get rid of her later.