AN/ Thanks for the great support!
Also, I apologize. I didn't know mulatto was an offensive and outdated term.
This is also a short chapter. I can't seem to write more than 500 words... The time line is a bit fuzzy.
Cheers xox
It was a beetle, fat and lazy under the brilliant stretch of blue sky, flitting from flower to flower before settling itself comfortably on a white clover. Lily's large curious eyes – bluer than glacier meltwater and full of pure tempered energy – watch closely as the insect sunbathed, its' crunchy armor plating shining a brilliant bronze. She narrowed her pupils into predatory slits, tail right up in the air and her head held like the born ruler of the universe. Tensing her hind legs, she leaps with the pounce of a tiger, confident and powerful. Sadly, it was not to be. The sluggish beetle, sensing change in the air, whizzes away annoyed.
Ordinarily an independent and proud dragon, Lily often felt like a little hatchling trying on mama's shoes when she failed a hunt. Upset and dejected, she hisses at the retreating beetle, and then mews with the newness of a newborn baby, soft yet high pitched. The infant curls up tiredly in the warm grass, shielding her eyes from the aggressive sun behind her tail. Grasshoppers click in the dry summer air as birds wheeled in slow lazy arcs high in the sky.
Maleficent makes her way through the green grass as it waves and rustles in the breeze. Her cotton knee-length summer dress billows in the puffs of wind. Approaching her daughter, the mother dragon starts to hum sweet nothings. Picking up the infant, she kisses the little snout before lying the little dragon across her chest. Lily snuffles, accepting the kiss, before burying her head into the crook of her mother's neck.
"I'll be right back. Someone is in need of an afternoon nap," she says stepping onto the patio, while rubbing the little back in soothing circles.