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

[magicalworld]

Calvin goes to the park often. His dearest place back home was the seemingly limitless expanse of unspoiled woodland behind his home, and now that he's in the City the park is the closest substitute he can find.

When he goes today and passes people fleeing for their lives while yelling about a dragon, he's puzzled but not immediately alarmed. He knows he should be alarmed, but curiosity is much stronger, and he makes a beeline for the source of the commotion before any well-meaning Cityzen can rescue the kid from making a mistake.

So he runs forward, and he sees a dragon. An enormous dragon, a golden one even. This day is already looking up. Calvin approaches the creature warily but without abject terror- he knows that not every creature in the City necessarily wants to eat him.