Dragons got tired of draggin' loot, and developed a means of wagon. We call the wheeled thing that carries things a "wagon" after the word "dragon". Dragons invented them, and once if you saw a wagon, there was surely a dragon nearby.
Though even reusable bags have a habit of melting when they get close to dragon fire. Many unfortunate accidents have resulted. Unfortunate from the dragon's point of view, anyway. In fact, quite a few medieval shrines were actually founded when a bag's worth of jewels fell from above, apparently from Heaven, bringing prosperity to a remote impoverished hamlet. The melted remains of the Bag For Life were seen as some sort of heavenly nectar - or maybe manna, medieval peasants not being that sure what manna actually looked like, so why shouldn't it look like melted plastic?
It actually started due to a misunderstanding. A young dragon, full of pride and excitement after his first successful toasting of a knight, saw a stall selling Bags for Life, and thought it was a free gift traditionally offered to anyone who had taken a life. He swept down to claim his gift. In the fire-drenched, hectic minutes that ensued... well, suffice it to say that he ended up feeling that he had now earned not just one but eleven bags.
These he duly took, and flew on home to his parents and brothers and aunties. No, they explained to him. No, bags were not given as rewards for kills (that would be chocolate.) His parents were kind as they explained, but his brothers mocked him mercilessly. Embarrassed and sulky, he became determined to use the much-mocked bags every single day, and prove how indispensible they were. And he indeed had the last laugh. Within a month, all 11 bags were being used by his immediate family. Within a few years, the whole of dragonkind were using them.
But how do they release each batch of jewels once they get home? So they also secrete a substance that dissolves the glue, and lets the jewels fall off, ready for them to fly back for the next batch? Or is it like Post-It Note glue: just strong enough for its intended purpose, but easy to pull free?
Also concerned by the "mostly." Mostly is true; I've seen the mess that results when children use glitter. But I can't think of any old tales that say that a dragon's lair can be found by following the trail of slightly sticky jewellery that lines their flight path.
This is my assumption too, although I will admit to a passing moment when I have wondered if dragons might combine their sticky chests with being a sort of marsupial.
My initial conclusion was that dragons all carried handbags, but I rejected that idea on the grounds that handbags aren't capacious enough.
I'm reduced to one-handedness at the moment, due to an unfortunate incident with a set of exercise weights, and the drawings were the result. Can't hold my embroidery ring. Can't play Lego Hobbit on the XBox. Can hold pencil. :-)
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These he duly took, and flew on home to his parents and brothers and aunties. No, they explained to him. No, bags were not given as rewards for kills (that would be chocolate.) His parents were kind as they explained, but his brothers mocked him mercilessly. Embarrassed and sulky, he became determined to use the much-mocked bags every single day, and prove how indispensible they were. And he indeed had the last laugh. Within a month, all 11 bags were being used by his immediate family. Within a few years, the whole of dragonkind were using them.
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Also concerned by the "mostly." Mostly is true; I've seen the mess that results when children use glitter. But I can't think of any old tales that say that a dragon's lair can be found by following the trail of slightly sticky jewellery that lines their flight path.
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Btw, loved the drawings! :D
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I'm reduced to one-handedness at the moment, due to an unfortunate incident with a set of exercise weights, and the drawings were the result. Can't hold my embroidery ring. Can't play Lego Hobbit on the XBox. Can hold pencil. :-)
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But hey, at least you can hold a pencil!
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