Leviathan’s Lullaby

Chapter 1

Written and conceived by a pearlescent dragon (PD :3 )

Hymns of wind brushed through the dense evergreen with a gentle touch, the fleeting reminiscent of whispers carried in the arms of the wind. Trees on-looked the horizon, watching over the landscape. A happy day. The sun’s warming embrace smothered the land with a bright light. Faraway mountains slumbered quietly, their backs prickled with brush, bush and branches.

Just outside of the treeline, the golden field of sand that stretched far upon the landscape, dotted with small stones and driftwood. White seafoam covered the beach with a thin layer of white, before receding back to the deep blue. Small offcuts from the nearby streams giggled and trickled as they roamed their way through the land. Aerwyna walked through the brush, stopping at the tree-line . Her feet bore into the small lining between the beach and the forest, glancing back to see.

“Aerwyna, don’t run off so quick!” Her mother towed behind, eventually followed by her father. The two perched at the treeline, watching her with care and attention.

But she didn’t listen, running toward the shore as if it would save her. Laughing as she jumped into the cooling waves, splashing around with childish innocence. Dunking her head under the water, and as she arose -

Nothing. Void . Her parents were gone, missing from her view. The once deep aquamarine the sea had glimmered now glinted a dark ichor-y black. And it felt like sludge. Trekking ‘water’, Aerwyna called out desperately.

“MA?! PA?” She splashed, barely able to keep her head above water from the viscous liquid.

“Sleep.” A pair of glistening white eyes appeared under the surface.

“We aren’t eachother anymore.”