The Red and the White
On the FB site, a page of a mediaeval manuscript showing two dragons locked in battle was repurposed with the legend
For just five shillings a month
You can provide dragons like these
With the food and shelter and medical attention they need
Act now! (1)
The idea was to present it as a flyer for the Sunshine Sanctuary for Sick Dragons. Recognising the source, I wrote a quick paragraph:
Ah, the Llamedosian Red and the Chalk White playing out their age-old enmity. This bloody Wizard turned up and said it was a metaphor for something or other, two peoples locked in age old enmity, but as he chundered on about it for so long, a local Witch called Nimue Jenkins locked him in a soundproof crystal box in a vain attempt to shut him up - local myth says he's still there, explaining poetic metaphor and its place in history, to this day...
Since then I've been having Ideas to repurpose this as a longer story. As you do.
I'm not sure if the longer story will fit here – so in the spirit of recent musings on elephants with wings, the "original" is going here together with credit for the inspiration, and the expanded and reworked story will fit in elsewhere.
Yes, I do know the title is half in Danish – couldn't find an online translator for Anglo-Saxon, so Danish will have to stand in, for now.
(1) Thanks to Jake Campbell and Maureen Fedarb