Exhilaration!
Since her children had been taken, Annie had not felt this excited. But no-one, she thought, can quite resist the thrill of soaring through the air perched between the wings of... a dragon. To feel the incredible power of the wings pumping to gain altitude, the mad lurching as the body heaved upwards, the tickling in your stomach as he glided smoothly on the currents.
Add the fact that they were swooping over the Mossdale, with her holding on for dear life but covering more ground in a few minutes than Annie the bird or wolf or panther could in as many hours, and her spirits soared right alongside the scaly form. There was hope again. They might yet find the passage that Annie was so desperate to rediscover.
He wasn't terribly big for a red, not nearly as big as the dragons in the stories, but he was a formidable creature. Ruby scales glittered against the sun whenever it peeked through the clouds, leathery wings stretched and the muscles rippled mightily as he moved.
Suppressing a pang of jealousy, Annie wondered what it would be like to be able to shift into a red dragon. She'd have to ask him.
From time to time, his fanged head swiveled to fix her with one eye, and she was sure she saw a smug grin in the reptilian features. Well, she could forgive the gloating, for now.
At this very moment, Sulfur was her best friend ever.
Since her children had been taken, Annie had not felt this excited. But no-one, she thought, can quite resist the thrill of soaring through the air perched between the wings of... a dragon. To feel the incredible power of the wings pumping to gain altitude, the mad lurching as the body heaved upwards, the tickling in your stomach as he glided smoothly on the currents.
Add the fact that they were swooping over the Mossdale, with her holding on for dear life but covering more ground in a few minutes than Annie the bird or wolf or panther could in as many hours, and her spirits soared right alongside the scaly form. There was hope again. They might yet find the passage that Annie was so desperate to rediscover.
He wasn't terribly big for a red, not nearly as big as the dragons in the stories, but he was a formidable creature. Ruby scales glittered against the sun whenever it peeked through the clouds, leathery wings stretched and the muscles rippled mightily as he moved.
Suppressing a pang of jealousy, Annie wondered what it would be like to be able to shift into a red dragon. She'd have to ask him.
From time to time, his fanged head swiveled to fix her with one eye, and she was sure she saw a smug grin in the reptilian features. Well, she could forgive the gloating, for now.
At this very moment, Sulfur was her best friend ever.
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