The Dragon Wakes
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Like a dragon, sleeping for eons
Not waiting, not caring
Reptilian splendor in slumber
But when the scent of a man
Of certain caliber encroaches
She stirs despite herself
Drawing in deep, his pheromones
Rhythmically
And once awakened be fearful
Her insatiable hunger released
Legends and lore fulfilled
As five suns chase five moons
This man is devoured in carnivorous
Repetition
Leaving him broken, depleted, motionless
Save the curl of his lip
Eventually she takes to the sky
Six hundred miles too short a length
To cleanse her nostrils and talons of him
And so the tale must be retold
Repeatedly
Until the fire in her eyes is squelched
Or, so the story goes