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T H E B U R D E N
A blur of red stabbed through the azure sky. Wheeling and twisting, the
object plummeted towards the earth in a gyre. As it descended, its
wings grew visible, but no one could have mistaken it for even the
largest of birds. Circling lower, its enormous size grew apparent as it flew
above a low hillside: From its head to its writhing tail’s tip, it spanned at
least fifty feet long.
It soared closer still to the ground. Orange tinged the red scales on its
belly, while the gleaming scales covering the rest of the body were darker
crimson. Jagged spikes fanning up from its back cut the air. As the beast
blocked out the sun, light behind it exposed thick veins in the two huge,
leathery wings, which stirred loud gusts of wind as they flapped to lower
the colossal body to the earth.
It landed with a reverberating boom on all four of its splayed feet, each
with three curved claws in front and one foot-long claw behind. At the end
of its long neck, thick jaw muscles supported its sleek head. Beneath two
horns jutting backward from its brow, the creature’s amber eyes with dark
slits spoke of the cunning and coiled wrath of a predator. Its jaw gaped
open, revealing rows of dagger teeth and a glistening, forked tongue. The
dragon’s deep roar pierced the air, which wavered with the heat pouring
from the enormous maw.
The lingworm had landed some twenty paces from a lone figure on a
rising in the flat landscape. Few could abide the presence of such a beast,
but the white-robed man whom the dragon gazed at looked back at it with
his cold blue eyes and smiled.
Stroking his long white beard, the Supreme Priest Bledla walked toward
the beast, whose mind he knew since it was under his command. Beneath its
huge shadow he appeared small and frail, but he did not hesitate to
approach. As their master through his unequalled power in the gift, Bledla
understood dragons in a way that no one else in all of Eormenlond or in all
the kingdoms of the world could. No one but he could know of the years of
pain and toil it took to find, entrap, and master the serpents of the air. No
one but he could know the labor he went through to ensure their secrecy
until their unveiling. And no one but he could wield the song of origin of
dragons.
As he knew his own body he knew them. He grasped their power and
their cunning. Deep in the tissues of his organs dwelled the vast strength of
their primal urges, the intense heat of their inner fire, and the ferocity of
their wrath. Of tenderness too they were capable, at least towards their own
kind, yet they were for the most part solitary, territorial creatures. The
twelve that he wielded, however, had no choice but to brook each other’s
company. They were the tools of the Way, the harbingers of Edan’s
righteousness. Through them Bledla would fulfill his purpose of bringing to
fruition the Kingdom of the Eternal, which, through the offering of Edan’s
mercy, was humanity’s salvation.
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