Keeper Of Dreams by Orson Scott Card

Author:Orson Scott Card
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Fantasy fiction, General, Short stories, Fantasy, American, Science fiction, Fiction, Short Stories
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2010-04-13T06:00:00+00:00

The dragon gargoyle on the house at 22 Adams pours water out of its mouth whenever it rains, and it splashes on the cobbles of the garden and in a bad storm it can soak the shoes of whoever is standing at the door. The house is so unusual—gothic amid Victorians, the garden cobbled and bricked, and the torrent of boys and girls running in and out of the house at all hours—that people drive from all over town sometimes just to see the Old Dragon’s House.

None of them guess that every night in the back room of the attic, the old dragon watches over the sleeping boy whose body is growing into one that someday he can use, someday he can wear, allowing him to emerge from the wiring of the house and bear a living body up into the sky, soaring once again on gossamer wings, his wyrmtail curling under him, seeking lightning in the storm so he can ride back down to earth. One ride per body, alas, for it burns up on the ride and shatters against the earth as the dragon within it plunges down into the earth.

But then, one ride on a single bolt of lightning is enough to keep a dragon going for a thousand years.

And the boy would love that moment, when it came.

They always did.

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