Her Magic Dragon

It had a special golden glow by the way the shadows made no effect on this egg. The elf queen had never seen such a large nest before. Dragons were rare and rarely had nests out in the grassy open plains like this.

Tia had no idea what creature was inside this giant scaly egg. It was sparkly and had a slight pale blue mist around it. She could feel the magnetic field pulsing and drawing her to it as she touched the surface.

She waited, since upon seeing it noticed that it had a large crack as if about to split open anytime.

What seemed an eternity suddenly came to a thunderous halt. This creature didn’t pick its way out of the shell, it blew it open like a lightning strike smashing the earth. Boom.

There amongst the bits and hunks of shell was a small face with glowing green eyes looking into her pale silver ones. It let out a huff and puff and blew a bit of breath towards her making her hair stream to one side.

Where was its mother dragon, Tia wondered out loud. The fair size baby wasn’t flustered nor scared. Curious and inquisitive, it gave her a shove with its soft nose. Never taking their eyes from the other, the new friends traded touches with their fingers, hers soft and elvish slender, baby’s clawed and scaled for it was only slightly smaller than she but not by much.

Soon Tia led the infant dragon to her home dwelling in the woods where they became acquainted further. Tia found that it liked berries and soft fern leaves to eat if they were mashed with water or milk.

The bond between these two friendly creatures of the woodlands and fields became fast and within a week they took regular forays around to find the baby dragon’s mother. No luck was had. Perhaps it is an orphan, Tia guessed. She decided to give the little pet a name once the former egg shell had magically crumbled into a pile of dust the next day.

The connection between them was feeling strong rather quickly and Tia wondered why. She found herself knowing what the baby, she now called Boomer, was wanting most of the time. Strange phenomenon, but not unheard of in the elf and fairy kingdoms.

They never happened upon the parent dragon or any others for that matter and spent days just gathering more food for the quickly growing hatchling and learning what mother earth wanted with the odd pair. The ground often shook when Boomer was left alone too long. She could feel its desperation or need from far off this way. Not to mention the bonding of their minds. It was incredible.