A Very Strange Fragment From The Book of Otter, Which The Owls Have Debated For Generations Quite Fruitlessly

When all the children were safe in the dragon’s belly, the great worm flew up to the weirs of the mountains and all of the parents in the villages wept.

But she perched upon the peak and watched as they made war upon the dragons, and the dragons left the children orphaned, and the surviving parents carved their poverty out of the hillsides, and wept, and wept, and the dragon thought to herself, “How well it is that the children do not have to endure so much weeping.”

And there she slept while the knights grew strong and bitter, and came at last and killed her while she reared herself up and said as she wept, “The clutch has come to this,” and they speared her through the belly, and when they opened her, all the children were dead.

And so all were poor, and dead, and all for love of the children, who had never wept.

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[Natalie]

I'm pretty sure this is my favorite post on this site.