Melanie Nilles

Pure gold is sleek as snakes in grass.
Deep blue as rough as rocky mass.
Only gold are born female all,
While true blue only males befall.

In between a range of green,
where I fit, as you have seen.

I love the rhyming! Is that typical? Why do you speak that way?

Long ago mankind lost respect
and our ancestors in circumspect
needed a means to make men think
so this they figured to make a link.

Since then are all drakes taught
to speak only after thought.
With words of rhyme in riddle spoken
the minds of men are awoken
to consider with care the words they hear
and not so quickly react with fear.

Fascinating! So, now all the dragons speak as you?

All dragons of Light learn from hatching out
by exposure to others all about.

But the Red Clan with less to use
have not the capacity to choose
and prefer directly to tease all life
into worry and fear and strife.

I see how your words can make a person think. If I understand right, the Red Clan speaks clearly but causes trouble.

*deep, rumbling sigh*

Plain speech they use to taunt and scare
and destroy and hunt from land and air
any they see to their avail
to feed on the strong and frail.

But not clear are the words they speak
with hisses and lisps of minds too weak.
Like animals of instinct without mind
instead of dragons of our kind.

The Red Clan is different? I assume by their collective name that they are all red. Why aren’t any of your kind red?

Long ago the Creators a decision made
that blue, gold, and, in between, jade
found places best to hide
and red nothing in nature reside.

Gold among the rocky cliffs and sandy places;
blue the lakes and shadow traces.
Among the foliage lies the green
Hiding in grasses in sight unseen.

In all of nature red stands out
so none of that color came about.
Chaos took and made it his
and that reason the Red Clan is.

I never thought of that. It’s practical.

I think we’re running out of time, but we’ll visit with another of the many dragons in a future interview to learn more.

Thank you, Jerafinas, for your time. And thank you, readers, for your patience and for your weekly visits.

Next week we’ll sit with Phelan Isolder, heir of the Cavatar throne.