Freedom Smells of Water
Title: Freedom Smells of Water
Characters: The Great Dragon
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Trapped in stone, the dragon waits
Prompt: Way, way off-prompt for merlin100's second prompt, rain
The smell of rain ghosting on a draft makes the dragon remember.
It had lived in high cliffs along the sea, sleeping in a deep corner of its honeycomb lair. There had been fish and later cattle, when the settlement had grown on the bluff. It skimmed over the raging waves when the storms came, buoyed by the scent of air and water and the feeling it could follow the whale-road to its end.
Now stone and chains define its world, and a persistent chilly damp. A drip from the ceiling splashes onto its nose, making its nostrils twitch.
Characters: The Great Dragon
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Trapped in stone, the dragon waits
Prompt: Way, way off-prompt for merlin100's second prompt, rain
The smell of rain ghosting on a draft makes the dragon remember.
It had lived in high cliffs along the sea, sleeping in a deep corner of its honeycomb lair. There had been fish and later cattle, when the settlement had grown on the bluff. It skimmed over the raging waves when the storms came, buoyed by the scent of air and water and the feeling it could follow the whale-road to its end.
Now stone and chains define its world, and a persistent chilly damp. A drip from the ceiling splashes onto its nose, making its nostrils twitch.