A Boy and His Dragon by Cooper R

Author:Cooper, R. [Cooper, R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay Romance, Gay, GLBT, Paranormal, Romance, M/M Romance, M/M, dreamspinner press, Shapeshifers
ISBN: 9781623802707
Google: W_p1yXoJEaQC
Amazon: 1623802695
Goodreads: 16409189
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2013-01-04T07:00:00+00:00

A Boy and His Dragon

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Chapter 7

DRAGONS, Arthur had discovered, were fond of stories in all forms: myths and anecdotes, TV shows and movies, songs and history books. There was a long history of dragons either telling stories or demanding that humans entertain them with songs and tales in some sort of exchange of information.

At least, that’s what Arthur decided to call it after he finally found a book on dragons to explore. It was another book written by humans, and written in the fifties to boot, but its intention hadn’t been to frighten people, and Arthur found that encouraging. In fact, when he spotted it in Bertie’s study and dragged it over with his foot while Bertie slipped in and out of a dreamy, fitful sleep, he thought it was one of Bertie’s because of its intriguing title, The Dragons of Mankind.

He considered what Bertie told him during one of their early meetings, that dragons collected things with eternity in mind, while he scanned through the glossy black-and-white photos and lithographs that filled the book, and saw picture after picture of dragons sitting atop piles of jewels and gold with tiny humans wrapped in their coils. The artists’ depictions of what an encounter with a dragon could be like dated far back into the Middle Ages and featured more European-looking dragons and beautiful, brave humans with musical instruments in their hands or with their mouths open as if reciting a story. Some of the drawings were clearly sexually charged—tightly bound, beautiful youths laid out before panting dragons, with the imagery of fire all around them.

R. Cooper

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The artwork from Asia that the author had used in the book didn’t show dragons with humans much, but then that artwork tended to show the dragons as powerful and god-like as they guarded rivers or chased after pearls. Those haughty, commanding dragons probably wouldn’t have needed to kidnap anyone. There probably would have been volunteers lining up to spend time with them. Arthur wasn’t sure he wouldn’t have been among them if he’d been alive back then and living somewhere under the control of a dragon king. They were definitely known for their generosity, more so than the human emperors who eventually grew jealous of their power and imprisoned them. It would have been an honor to serve creatures like that.

Arthur wasn’t even entirely certain that he wouldn’t have done the same with a European dragon. He’d noticed in the stories about them that the author of the book had dutifully recounted that there were plenty of knights and maidens who chose to go to the dragons.

The explanation in the stories was always that they did it to save their people from the dragon’s wrath but the author, and Arthur, had still wondered.

The stories were only written down or drawn decades, sometimes centuries later. More than that, the power of the dragons was evident in every flexing muscle and curling bit of flame. Power had always been an aphrodisiac and always would be.

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