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#FlashFiction by Andrea Rodda #EverythingYouThinkYouAre


A pal of a pal wrote this brief fiction piece and I assumed I’d share it with my followers.

He reveals himself to me one night as I meditate upon the star, Arcutrus (referred to as The Dragon in some locations all over the world). As I sit gazing up on the sky, permitting the ideas to roll via my thoughts unchecked, a query arises inside me…

What am I?

The star, Arcturus, glimmers and winks and instantly, an excellent shadow crosses the moon. I ought to be frightened, however I’m not.  In reality, I’m unusually comforted as I stand beneath the sky in an excellent, empty discipline,  watching the shadow develop.

Simply as I’m positive it is going to engulf me, the Dragon, Acrtramis, alights in entrance of me.

He’s an impressive sight to behold, with glittering silvery scales tufted with downy white feathers.  He’s a slender beast, with a fantastically rounded stomach, tender and heat and fuzzy white, like sinking right into a cloud.

He has sturdy hind legs that may launch him a whole lot of ft within the air earlier than he spreads his leathery opalescent wings.

He likes to experience the thermals, and may glide for a whole lot of kilometres earlier than he folds his wings again and plummets towards the earth like a meteor, solely to tug up on the final second and are available to a swish touchdown, barely leaving a footprint, by some river or in a mountain meadow.  He likes peace and quiet, you see, and tends to enterprise into the wilds to search out it.

His forelegs are the dimensions of small bushes, and coated in the identical silvery scales as his physique, ending in arms, virtually human of their construction however for the deep blue razor sharp claws that reach six inches past his fingertips.  They’re fierce, made for ripping and rending, however I’ve seen them carry out stunning acts of delicacy.

Have you ever ever seen a dragon weave a dandelion crown?  I guarantee you, it’s awe inspiring.

He has a protracted, slender face and a carefully flared snout.  A small moustache of positive white hairs trails down both facet of his perpetual smile, framing a beneficiant mouth full of razor sharp enamel.

Beneath bushy, feathered brows, he seems to be at me with ice blue eyes which might be in some way each piercing and heat.  Behind them I can see eons of data, knowledge, pleasure, heartbreak, love and rage.  They appear to swirl and shift like a residing sky the longer I look into them, and typically, I swear, I can see the laughing visage of a God throughout the inky black pupils.

He gazes down at me and I gaze again up at him.  I open my mouth to talk, however the phrases die in my throat as his voice booms in my thoughts.

YOU ARE EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU ARE.

I don’t know what meaning, and he appears to sense that as a result of he grins.

IT IS BOTH A BLESSING AND A WARNING.

I nonetheless don’t perceive and I need to ask him to clarify it to me, however I can’t converse.

Actramis leans down and nuzzles my cheek together with his delicate snout.  His whiskers tickle.

FEAR NOT, SISTER.

He presses into my cheek briefly.

YOU ARE EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU ARE.

After which he’s gone, and it is just me and the wind and Arcturus glittering excessive within the evening sky.

Actramis as imagined by Lynne LeGrow



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