Conclusion

The Loop has haunted Conclusion from the moment she first hatched. It was there, in the back of her mind, a nagging force that ensnared her like vines every night when she slept. The thorns of other minds dug into her scales and skin and brain and she had to dig them out, though her family, her kin, called her quiet and wilting and sick even though she knew that they were the ill ones! They had to be! Dragons didn't rummage through other dragons' dreams- and Conclusion knew there was only one way to spare her thoughts from the circumstances of her birth.

She had to stop sleeping.

Conclusion has never stopped running since her very first wingbeat, constantly keeping distance from the family who only ever worried for her but could never understand the way her mind functioned. When tired, she bites at her wings, injecting herself with her own venom to keep her awake. When she does sleep, it's fleeting and filled with nightmares. She considers herself an orphan, the first-and-last of her kind, of her kin. She is her own Conclusion, and even now, as a young dragon, not yet fully grown, she is alone with only her thoughts to comfort her, lost and with no intention to be found.

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