Dragon's Son by M. Casperson

Author:M. Casperson [Casperson, M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-25T16:00:00+00:00

Amarea

My beloved husband,

I feel as though I am writing to you for the first time. Unlike yourself, I meant every word of the letters I sent you before, but it is different now that I’ve met you. You are nothing like you portrayed yourself to be. One might question the prudence of teaching one’s wife to love a man other than oneself, but perhaps the gods are at work again, because I miss you.

Is that not curious? It is not your false persona I miss, but you yourself. You seemed rather unreal to me when you first arrived, but after reading your journal, it is stranger to have you gone than it is to have you home. I find myself reinterpreting everything. I suppose I do forgive easily, but having since reflected on your behavior, as well as what you’ve written about yourself in the journal, I suspect easy forgiveness will serve me well in our future.

I do not wish to be grateful for the crisis that has taken you from my side. For one day, I felt we had finally seen one another honestly, and now you have departed for the north once again. Yet without Villian’s appearance and your transformation into a dragon, how long would reconciliation have been delayed?

You must allow me to be sentimental, for I am bursting. When I think back on your speech to the people, my heart swells. For a man as reticent as yourself, you can talk like none other when you choose to. You described how it happened, how, as you lay dying with Villian’s taunts burning in your ears, you were taken with a rush of patriotic fury and shed your cherished humanity and became the monster you never wished to be. You are no monster to me, Alexis, and you are no monster to the people. They love you. I love you, and we all wept. But then, you gave us hope. You promised us that, as surely as your patriotism transformed you into a dragon, it would transform you back into a man when Villian was dead. I have never heard such applause as thundered out then, and the city’s joy has not ceased. Twice, I have gone into the streets, and both times, my litter was thronged and escorted with the shout, “Glory to the prince!”

I see the wisdom in going to extremes to set the lords at their ease, but was it truly necessary not to kiss me goodbye? You said farewell with a bow, a word, and a look. You promised the lords that so long as dragon blood burns in your veins, you would not so much as touch my hand. I should not have tolerated such a parting. I should have thrown my arms around you and kissed you goodbye myself! I am too much of a child, trained to obey. I gave no oath to the lords. I am your wife, and you are as much mine as I am yours.

Write to me, Alexis.

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