This way could be my book of days

[returnsmagic]

WHO: Aurican and Calvin
WHERE: City Park!
WHEN: 8/5
WARNINGS: when this goes into PG rating you know something has gone horribly wrong.
SUMMARY: A boy with a legendary imagination meets a beast of legend.
FORMAT: Prose!

Aurican is a social creature. He enjoyed the company of his nest mates and absolutely delighted in immersing with the elves. Such a small yet long lived people, with a certain dignity and grace that not even dragons can ever hope to compare. Oh, how he misses them.

However, this City - this strange, crude, yet intriguing City - befuddles Aurican. He never seen the like. He doubts that even Smelt have ever seen a human city like it. The strange, offensive smells, the gaudy architecture, the bizarre music: it was, for a while, too much for Aurican. He spent more of his time in a nice valley tucked away south of the City. It is only now does he finally peak out of his shady groove and explore a little more.

So now here he is, a massive gold dragon, sitting perfectly poised, using his long neck to look around. He believes what he is doing is called "people watching" - the observation of individuals as they go on their daily lives.

Unfortunately, it seems like they decide to forgo their usual pastimes in the park and scatter in Aurican's presence. He suppose that with a dragon like Khisanth for company for so long, they earned the fear of everything draconic.

What a shame. He'd like to hear what their lives are about.

Comments

[firstgoldson]

"I don't know. I was there ever since I hatched, and I and my nestmates were so far inside the mountain that while our nest was illuminated by the magic of our long-dead mothers, there were shadows outside the nest that frightened us, so we never went out of the cave. But I suspect we were there for at least several centuries, but it is hard to say. Staying in the cave did not teach us the passage of time."

But oh, he had some good memories with Smelt and Burll and even Blayze, even if his bad temper did not allow Aurican to get along with him very well.

"Perhaps it was best that we didn't try to leave the cave. The only way out of the mountain was by flight, and we were too young at that time."

[magicalworld]

Calvin's good feelings come to a screeching stop inside of him and his face falls. He doesn't really register much after the first part.

"Your Mom's dead?"

His guardian in the City was murdered last year. Even temporary, her absence was agonizing, sort of like how he hasn't seen his real Mom since he was last Ported in. The idea of having to be without a Mom for centuries is hard to process.