I am the day,
The shining sun
Amidst noon play
Of action and fun.
I am the fire
Burning ever so bright
To judge the heart
Between wrong and right.
I am the burning rose
Of love's first glow
The warmest kiss
To melt the heart of ice and snow.
I am the summer's boon,
And the strength of a courageous heart,
The passion's of love
Where the need for action and truth starts.
A dragon explains why he kidnapped the princess by RandomVanGloboii, literature
Literature
A dragon explains why he kidnapped the princess
"Your highness the king of humans, first of all I wish to inform you that I am sorry for my behavior. My actions were caused by a misunderstanding by myself, which costed me having an entire human army coming for me and lots of pain. So here I am, explaining what was this misunderstanding that made me kidnap your daughter from her tower and bring her with me.
Believe it or not, I did not mean to cause her suffering or eat her like many of your fellow humans have thought. I genuinely thought she was being kept in prison. Now hear me out, please! I didn't know much about your royalty and I had barely seen human houses as big as that one - you c
Rites of the Mountain by Hamma-of-RammaH, literature
Literature
Rites of the Mountain
It was once spoken around the hearthfires that the Trolltop Mountain was the fang of the Great Beast, the one that swallowed the world. Whispered by toothless hags and men with beards longer than their memories, they knew of one truth. The mountain was fit for no man or beast. Yet, a boy of but twelve winters would dare to stare up at the beetling crags and mock the cruel gods above.
Young Tor would kiss his weeping mother goodbye and then, striding confidently forward, would bow before the headsman. The elder would nod his grey head and and then, producing a knife, would cut off the braid of childhood which had for so long lain behind the bo