Skeletons - Dragons Next Door - for the Giraffe CAll

[aldersprig]

For kelkyag's prompt.

Dragons Next Door Verse. DND has a landing page - here (or on LJ)

This comes after Over the Wall (LJ Link),
The Black Tower (LJ Link
and
The Pumpkin (LJ Link.

Commenters: 3

Zizny gave me a look that I couldn’t really read; this one had nothing of humanity in it. It tilted its head at an angle, to look at me with one bright eye, its nostrils widening and its jaw dropping just a little. “The Pumpkin and the Black Tower have secrets. This I can understand. But what of Sage and Audrey?”

I felt my cheeks warming; dragons did not blush, but I was sure that this one knew what the coloring meant. “We’ve been together for a long time. It’s hard to hide anything from anyone for that long… it all comes out in the wash.” Human idiom on top of human body language; I knew better. I blamed it on my nerves.

“Like stains.” The jaw dropped a little more. “And so you have no secrets from one another?”

“Mm…” I hedged, wishing for a tall hedge and not just a short wall between us. The look Zizny was pinning me with seemed entirely predatory, and its front claws were twitching. “There are Pumpkin and Black Tower things, I’m sure. We don’t tend to poke there much. And there’s my family – but Sage knows most of that now.”

“Most? Now?” Zizny’s wings flared a little bit. I regained my calm, surprising myself at how quickly it came back when I felt threatened.

“Most. My family are – well, not the sort of people you talk about in polite company. I had to explain quite a bit of that right off – right from the beginning. Human weddings are family affairs, after all, and not having any family to stand up with you is a little unusual.”

“Yes,” Zizny nodded. “That would be so in a dragon ‘wedding’ as well.” Its wings settled down on its back. “So you are ashamed of your family?”

“Oh,” I sighed, looking down at my toes. “Oh, by the seventh iteration, yes.”

Comments

[meeks]

Ooh...Zizny looking dragon-y! That would make a good illustration!

[aldersprig]

*grin*

How backed-up is your queue right now?

[meeks]

umm...6-7 items

[aldersprig]

I can wait 'till you're a little less glutted, then

[meeks]

I'll make a note of it anyway :)

[aldersprig]

yay!

[meeks]

Could you give me some idea of what Audrey looks like? I keep catching myself doodling dragons in my notebook...might as well do it properly :P

[aldersprig]

Hunh, I'd better figure it out, then, shouldn't I?


She looks like a film noir star, only in color. I believe she looks like Jane Greer http://www.leninimports.com/howard_hughes_women_greer_5.jpg only without the hat .;-)

Her dresses are a little old-fashioned, too.

[clare_dragonfly]

Hee hee, poor Aud. Well, now I've got to know more about her family!

Love the interactions between these two. It would be interesting to see one from Zizny's perspective.

Typo? "wishing for a hedge and not just a wall between us." I would think a wall would be better than a hedge...

[aldersprig]

I'm not sure I can write in Zizny's point of view. ;-)

They have a wall. She wants a hedge.

[clare_dragonfly]

Okay, but why "just" a wall? I had the impression Zizny was making her nervous, and surely a wall would be better protection than a hedge against a dragon.

[aldersprig]

I don't know! *flails* the line seemed to make perfect sense in my head and now it's all... mew.

Mew?

(it's a very short wall?)

[clare_dragonfly]

Maybe "tall hedge and not just a short wall" then? :-P

[aldersprig]

yes! *bounce* thank you!

[clare_dragonfly]

You are very welcome!

[inventrix]

*throws in her two cents* I thought when reading it that it was because it is a lot easier to hide in a hedge than a wall.

[clare_dragonfly]

Oh, that would make sense... Didn't occur to me though. Maybe if it was a thick or high hedge.