A Gryphon's Proposal
Dearest, My apologies for this messy scrawl. A gryphon's beak is a wonderful tool for so many things, but holding a quill isn't one of them. This is Dusk writing, from the third heavy wing squadron. You've probably already found the feather I...
The Virgin and the Dragon
At first there seemed nothing in the cave but an impenetrable gloom. Then she saw the eyes: bright golden yellow eyes like two lanterns shining in the darkness. The dragon moved forwards into the light, his claws clicking on the rock floor, his huge,...
The Dragon and the Thief
Dellerton slunk slowly into the dragon's lair, his feet touching the rock floor with professional soundlessness. The air was thick with sulphuric dragon-stench, but there was no sign of the foul beast yet. He risked another step forward, and then...
In the Service of the Gryphon Princess
Talox leaned both his talons on the parapet, squinting at the horizon. Somewhere in that direction, just over the Grey Hills, gryphons were fighting dragons. If the brave gryphon squadrons should fall, if the rampaging reptiles should reach the Spring...
A Dragon's Mount
The man stared at me as though he'd never seen a dragon before. Then I remembered he almost certainly hadn't. I was, after all, the last one. "If you'd like to come this way, sir?" I followed as he led me through several sterile, interchangeable...
Flamboyance
I allowed myself a small squawk of triumph as I landed. Waking up so early had been worth it. I'd just claimed one of the best perches on the whole seafront. It had an eye-catching position on a slight promontory, overlooking a busy section of the...
Beautiful Creature
On the balcony far below me sits one of the beautiful creatures. I lean forwards over the parapet to see him better, wrapping my tail around an iron chimney for support. I know this one. He is a fine example of his kind. He has sandy hair that flows...
Price of Passage
"I think we can dispense with these," he said, casting off his human visage. I followed suit, and we both took a few moments to stretch our wings, swish our tails and stamp our feet, feeling the life pour back into our neglected bodies. We were the...
The fire dragons
He was back, sliding through the cold air in great swooping circles with me at their centre. Balanced on two great wings, he lit the night sky with ostentatious jets of fire from his throat, the flame glittering off his vivid red scales. A part of me...
Old Flames
Kreel stirred. There was, at first, no outward sign of it: he lay motionless atop his great mound of gold, curled round in a circle so the tip of his long tail rested on the scales of his slender neck. The only evidence that he was awake was the...
Echobright
Three females were perched on a stone parapet high above the street. Their wings were folded and their long grey necks thrown back as they sang out into the bright blue sky. They sang their parts in the Song, the sky-filling harmony to which we hyeloki...
The Lizardman of Aurelheart, Part 1
Bella laughed as she piloted the little flyer recklessly low over the forest of Aurelheart. It had always struck her that there was something fundamentally disappointing about flying: that however fast you were going, however furiously your engines...