A Very Dragon Xmas, a story of Dragons Next Door for the Giraffe Call
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moonwolf's Prompt.
Dragons next Door has a landing page here on DW and here on LJ.
Apologies for the cop-out.... it seems I need to know if my settings have gods. O_O
“Do dragons celebrate Christmas?”
Aud had begun to think her middle child was an expert on everything draconic, so the question, out of the blue, surprised her. “I don’t know,” she admitted. “The elkin don’t, but the pixies and brownies like any excuse for a party, and the teeny races seem to mirror humanity for the most part.”
“They have lights on their tree in the front yard,” Junie informed her. “But I didn’t think they had the same heaven as humans.”
“Oh, dear.” She’d finally gotten things worked out with Junie’s teacher, or thought she had, and now this. “Well, why don’t you ask the Smiths what they feel about Christmas, and about heaven?” she offered. “There are a lot of human families who celebrate it like the brownies and pixies do, as a purely secular…” She paused, remembering who she was talking to… “as a holiday that doesn’t have anything to do with faith.”
“Oh.” Juniper nodded, looking thoughtful. “Sort of like we do?”
“Sort of,” Audrey answered uncomfortably. She had thought about going back into a Church, any church, when her children had been born, but the taste of her family’s witch-burning narrow-minded country church had left a bad taste in her mouth, and she’d never gotten up the nerve. Sage’s family very quietly followed their own religion, and she knew he’d been talking to Jin about that lately, but that was not a childhood sort of thing. And here she was, trying to explain secular Christmas to her daughter and wondering what the Smiths would make of her daughter’s more recent questions. “Why don’t we go together and ask Zizny about their tree?”
“Okay!” Juniper bounced cheerfully, seeming oblivious to her mother’s uncertainty. Should she have taken the kids to church? Could it have helped?
“The tree,” Zizny commented, before they had a chance to ask anything. “Yes. We do like to fit in.”
“But do you got to church? Do you go to heaven?”
Zizny’s jaw dropped in a smile. “Do you go to church? Do you go to heaven?” it asked the girl in return, winking at Aud. Audrey, in her turn, tried not to squirm.
“I… I don’t know. We don’t go to church, though.”
“And there you have your answer,” Zizny winked again. “We do not know, either. But we are willing to wish you a Merry Christmas… and there is a present for you waiting inside.”
As Junie dashed off, Audrey murmured “thank you.”
“The difficult questions can have easy answers now,” the dragon replied gently. “Time enough when she’s older for the complex.”
This entry was originally posted at http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/209151.html. You can comment here or there.
moonwolf's Prompt.
Dragons next Door has a landing page here on DW and here on LJ.
Apologies for the cop-out.... it seems I need to know if my settings have gods. O_O
“Do dragons celebrate Christmas?”
Aud had begun to think her middle child was an expert on everything draconic, so the question, out of the blue, surprised her. “I don’t know,” she admitted. “The elkin don’t, but the pixies and brownies like any excuse for a party, and the teeny races seem to mirror humanity for the most part.”
“They have lights on their tree in the front yard,” Junie informed her. “But I didn’t think they had the same heaven as humans.”
“Oh, dear.” She’d finally gotten things worked out with Junie’s teacher, or thought she had, and now this. “Well, why don’t you ask the Smiths what they feel about Christmas, and about heaven?” she offered. “There are a lot of human families who celebrate it like the brownies and pixies do, as a purely secular…” She paused, remembering who she was talking to… “as a holiday that doesn’t have anything to do with faith.”
“Oh.” Juniper nodded, looking thoughtful. “Sort of like we do?”
“Sort of,” Audrey answered uncomfortably. She had thought about going back into a Church, any church, when her children had been born, but the taste of her family’s witch-burning narrow-minded country church had left a bad taste in her mouth, and she’d never gotten up the nerve. Sage’s family very quietly followed their own religion, and she knew he’d been talking to Jin about that lately, but that was not a childhood sort of thing. And here she was, trying to explain secular Christmas to her daughter and wondering what the Smiths would make of her daughter’s more recent questions. “Why don’t we go together and ask Zizny about their tree?”
“Okay!” Juniper bounced cheerfully, seeming oblivious to her mother’s uncertainty. Should she have taken the kids to church? Could it have helped?
“The tree,” Zizny commented, before they had a chance to ask anything. “Yes. We do like to fit in.”
“But do you got to church? Do you go to heaven?”
Zizny’s jaw dropped in a smile. “Do you go to church? Do you go to heaven?” it asked the girl in return, winking at Aud. Audrey, in her turn, tried not to squirm.
“I… I don’t know. We don’t go to church, though.”
“And there you have your answer,” Zizny winked again. “We do not know, either. But we are willing to wish you a Merry Christmas… and there is a present for you waiting inside.”
As Junie dashed off, Audrey murmured “thank you.”
“The difficult questions can have easy answers now,” the dragon replied gently. “Time enough when she’s older for the complex.”
This entry was originally posted at http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/209151.html. You can comment here or there.