The Pack's Dragon
He remembered the parades to the temples of the Goddess and her children, the laying of gifts at the feet of their corporeal forms and receiving their blessings.
He remembered the orgies, the great sacrifice, the tangle of limbs, the sweat, and the scent of them, and the celebration of children conceived in honor of the gods.
“I remember how we met,” he ached at the memory. Watching the delegation of fire dragons passing overhead, their scales glittering gold, bronze, and amber in the sunlight. “You were the most beautiful thing I had ever seen,” he remembered the breathlessness of the moment as the graceful female dragon had lightly touched down and transformed into a voluptuous red-haired