Written for "The 100 Word Drabble Challenge (With Prompts)" at the Reviews Lounge, Too. The challenge:
Write a drabble of exactly 100 words that incorporates at least one of these ideas: Love, Betrayal, Regret, Forgiveness, Hope. Also, include at least one of these prompts in some way: "horse," "sword," "magic," "dragon," "ray gun," "spaceship." Prompts can be pluralized (for example, "dragons") or turned into adjectives (for example, "magical") or part of a compound word (for example, "horseback") and need not physically be in the story (for example, you could just have a character thinking or talking about a dragon rather than actually having a dragon appear). Feel free to use as many of the ideas and prompts as you like, but it would probably be difficult to use all of them in just 100 words.
I chose to use "love" and "dragon."
David.
Zanna didn't know how you placed a name on something so complex. He was human…he was a dragon…no, he was a polar bear…no, Fain…
But no matter what he was, Zanna knew…
She missed him. She saw his face in every snowflake that fell, every wisp of smoke from the dragons' nostrils, every one of Alexa's smiles.
She knew it was futile trying to convince herself that he would return….but still, she wrote him letters. One letter, every year, for five years.
One. Dragon.
Two. Polar bear.
Three. Human.
Four. Fain.
Five. Everything.
Sometimes.
Zanna's Fire Eternal burned on…
A note to those unfamiliar with the fandom: The way that I incorporated love is as "The Fire Eternal," which is a metaphor for love.