Wynter's Story

Eye of the Dragon

After dispatching a dragon, Alexander has an unwilling (and captive) audience with his mother. The not-so-dispatched dragon makes an appearance, kind of crazy-like, the mother is forced to turn on him, and then turns to Alexander. It's pretty clear that he's doomed.


A lot of this works for me, Alexander has a pretty solid internal commentary running, one which seems pretty feasable for such a farfetched situation. There's some lines of vivid description, as well: "Her form was a reptilian caricature of a feline," "blood tainting the surface of the yellow enamels." That makes it right into my head. Overall, the writing is pretty competent, and the dialogue works. My question: is there a moral to this story? Is it a comment on misunderstanding, or some guy's fatal misadventure with a dragon? The story is certainly well-written, but I'm not sure what I was supposed to take from it. If it was just a fatal misadventure, I'm willing to leave it at that.