Net
Challenge Twenty: The Wizards of Summer - Drabbles
Title: Net
Author: pokeystar
Wizard/Witch: Draco Malfoy/Astoria Greengrass
Rating/Warnings: G/PG
Prompt: 6 - shrake
Theme: Maui is for lovers.
Draco’s eyes wandered over the well-appointed room, both restless and bored. The Ka'anapali based, wizard-owned four-star bistro was elegant as expected. He glanced across the small table at his elegant wife, so beautiful in the candlelight, and suppressed a grimace. She had been “expected” too.
His meal appeared before him. It smelled delicious; lightly broiled shrake in lemon-infused beurre blanc. As he began to eat, he thought of a book he once read on native cultures. Most believed if you consumed the flesh of a being, you absorbed its abilities and spirit.
Draco Malfoy devoutly hoped that belief was true.
Author's Notes:
According to the Lexicon, a shrake is “A magically-created species of saltwater fish, found in the Atlantic Ocean, which is covered in spines and which deliberately seeks out and destroys Muggle fishing nets. The first shrake were supposedly created in the 1800s by a group of wizard fisherfolk who had been insulted by Muggles. The shrake, by damaging the nets used by Muggles to fish in that area of the sea, cause no end of trouble.”
I find it highly amusing that a Malfoy would go to Hawaii, only to eat an Atlantic based fish.
What I imagine the bistro would look like:
Son’z Maui at Swan Court in Ka'anapali.