In today’s Drabble Wednesday, I delve under the surface of
reality, to find the secrets…
Butterfly
Such a delicate thing. Its wings fluttered on the winds,
their white-tipped, crimson pattern vivid against the sunlit afternoon. It
danced against the clouds, before settling on a shaded branch of an oak tree.
There it waited, its insect antennae twitching.
Golden hair, and a sunshine smile, the woman passed beneath
its tree. She laughed as it landed on silky skin. For a moment, it perched,
wings outstretched. She gasped in awe.
“Beautiful.”
It quivered. Minuscule fangs punctured skin, injecting
poison into her bloodstream.
“Ow!” One breath,
before she convulsed and died.
Such a delicate thing, such a deadly touch.
~*~
The Long Path
“Only a fool begins the long path. Only Death will end it.”
That is the saying among my people. If any remained alive
they would call me a fool.
A thousand years I walked this road, past war, past famine,
past all I loved. The summer rains have drenched me, the winter snows have
chilled my bones.
Yet, I walked.
I was your name whispered on the wind, that shadow on the
wall, the ghost in the graveyard. I have strode the path between worlds, and I
am at its end.
I stand in the grove of night awaiting Death.
~*~
First Kind
I am the last of my kind. Eons ago we swarmed the skies, the
earth, the seas, and fed on the giants that lived here. Then the giants died,
and we turned on each other. Only I survived, hibernating all these long years.
I am the last of my kind.
Or I was, until I met the human. This new breed that inherited
our domain. Puny, but he served his purpose.
Now my eggs are buried deep under his decaying skin and
tissues, feeding off his corpse. Soon they will hatch, and we will feast on
more of his race.
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