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Dream Spores - 4. The Lizard People
The Lizard People
In the dream there was a hall
in a mountain
with many colourful boxes and containers
like in Sokoban
my people were led through it
while men worked there
and pushed boxes.
I fell back two paces
and in my way they pushed a wall of open boxes
and cut me off from my group.
I jumped onto a stack that was several metres high
to jump over this wall
behind which my men turned around towards me and waited for me.
It did not work
I took a detour
displaced as a little prank a flat chocolate box
so that they would have to look for it.
That was when the trap snapped shut.
They had ambushed us.
The workers were now lizard creatures
and we had to get out of here
But my men were now in the centre of the hall
cut off from the exit
and separated from me
they were quickly scattered further
But we managed
with good fighting
and a little high wire acrobatics
in the upper half of the hall
to kill several of them
and reunite a few of us.
In a critical moment
the hall trembled
and the lizard men listened up.
They ceased fighting
and tried to leave the hall
Through the windows high up in the walls
a few made it.
I do not know how,
but I was transfigured into a dragon
and was able to carry one of the men outside.
In the snow on the quivering mountain
I dropped him off
He wanted to go back, to fight
I flew without him
back into the hall
it was not trembling anymore
into the leader's room
small again
no one saw me
our captain stood there.
He demanded from the lizard man
to be made into a dragon as well
The lizard leader agreed
I was surprised
because he was our enemy
And at
how something like this should be possible
and watched intently
I remained undiscovered right there in the room
as the leader gave the captain
plates and scales, one by one
sewed them onto his body
He bled and panted
Liquid leaked from him
but he stood still
I watched with fascination
and found it incredible
When every part of his body
except for the eyes
was sewn into stiff carapace
he waited for the transformation
which did not come.
I saw that he could neither breathe
nor move
But he looked at the lizard man with pain
and still much too much hope
for my liking
out of his oozing eyes
He wanted to speak
and surely also move
he fought for it
but couldn't open his mouth
nor breathe
nor draw his sword
nor lift his hand
He would, standing up
with thousands of pinpricks in his skin
imprisoned in unyielding plates
suffocate miserably.
The lizard leader laughed at him.
I was annoyed by the captain's stupidity
and became angry
I approached him
to tell him that I would defect
but noticed the sun
and woke up.
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Names, places, characters, events, and incidents are based on the authors' lives and experiences and may be changed to protect personal information. Any resemblances to actual persons (living or dead), organizations, companies, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.
Note: While authors are asked to place warnings on their stories for some moderated content, everyone has different thresholds, and it is your responsibility as a reader to avoid stories or stop reading if something bothers you.
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