After being heavily and emotionally influenced by Longfellow's poem and the specific quote that goes "Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence," I was struck by the utter solitude of it. I wanted to capture that in a character, and to do so I chose the last dragon, still eking out life after life and now in the modern world. He always has to hide his true self, he seldom can risk showing his true form. But he is old now, even for a dragon, and must die again in order to become someone else...or not.
Thanks, Tyree! Very interesting!
Be sure to check out "Speak Me in Passing" and all the rest of the stories on August 31, 2022!
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