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Dragon Flame
2 September 2006 14:59I wake up swimming.
This is a dank lake. I can hear the condensation dripping off the ceiling above me. There’s an echo so I know it’s a large space. It’s pitch dark so I cant' see. My arm is hurt from the battle and my skin is tingling from whatever is in the water. I’m dogpaddling to stay afloat. It’s difficult because the water is thicker than usual. I swim over to what sounds like the edge of the pool and find a wall.
I’m a bit surprised to find that the wall is soft and shuddering.
I can hear the muffled sounds of battle.
I’m a little worried. I might have a concussion. I let the events of the last few minutes wash through my brain to get a fix on where I might be.
We were in a cave fighting the dragons. The battle had been going on for a long hour and we were deep in the catacombs of the lair. So far we’d managed to kill three of them. There was an explosion and I think that the floor must have caved in. I hit my head and ending up in an underground lake of some kind.
I look upwards and there is no hole of light to support my theory. The muffled sounds of battle are coming from behind the soft wall I’m up against.
With a growing sense of terror I grab a light stick out of my vest and give it a twist. In the green local glow of it, I can see the bones of people and animals. I’m not in a cave.
I’ve been eaten by a dragon. The thick water is digestive juice. My skin is tingling because I’m being dissolved. It looks like I’m in the flame stomach. That means that the next time he breathes fire at my fellow soldiers out there this whole place will ignite.
I’m banging on the wall and yelling at the top of my lungs to tell my friends to shoot at the sound of my voice. That’s when the dragon breathes in deeply and I hear it all around me.
There’s a click as the bioelectric charge sparks at the base of the dragon’s throat and the sphincter irises open above me. The shouts of my fellow soldiers yelling “take cover” echo down to me loudly through the hole. There’s a sound like sizzling bacon. There’s a sound like hundreds of sheets snapping in the wind. A hurricane takes two seconds to build around me. There’s a beat and I hear the dragon’s heart stop in preparation. I feel the walls around me contract. They spasm and I’m crushed in a hot embrace.
My world goes white.
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This is a dank lake. I can hear the condensation dripping off the ceiling above me. There’s an echo so I know it’s a large space. It’s pitch dark so I cant' see. My arm is hurt from the battle and my skin is tingling from whatever is in the water. I’m dogpaddling to stay afloat. It’s difficult because the water is thicker than usual. I swim over to what sounds like the edge of the pool and find a wall.
I’m a bit surprised to find that the wall is soft and shuddering.
I can hear the muffled sounds of battle.
I’m a little worried. I might have a concussion. I let the events of the last few minutes wash through my brain to get a fix on where I might be.
We were in a cave fighting the dragons. The battle had been going on for a long hour and we were deep in the catacombs of the lair. So far we’d managed to kill three of them. There was an explosion and I think that the floor must have caved in. I hit my head and ending up in an underground lake of some kind.
I look upwards and there is no hole of light to support my theory. The muffled sounds of battle are coming from behind the soft wall I’m up against.
With a growing sense of terror I grab a light stick out of my vest and give it a twist. In the green local glow of it, I can see the bones of people and animals. I’m not in a cave.
I’ve been eaten by a dragon. The thick water is digestive juice. My skin is tingling because I’m being dissolved. It looks like I’m in the flame stomach. That means that the next time he breathes fire at my fellow soldiers out there this whole place will ignite.
I’m banging on the wall and yelling at the top of my lungs to tell my friends to shoot at the sound of my voice. That’s when the dragon breathes in deeply and I hear it all around me.
There’s a click as the bioelectric charge sparks at the base of the dragon’s throat and the sphincter irises open above me. The shouts of my fellow soldiers yelling “take cover” echo down to me loudly through the hole. There’s a sound like sizzling bacon. There’s a sound like hundreds of sheets snapping in the wind. A hurricane takes two seconds to build around me. There’s a beat and I hear the dragon’s heart stop in preparation. I feel the walls around me contract. They spasm and I’m crushed in a hot embrace.
My world goes white.
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