Savannah Zherebnenko

Crown of Flesh and Flame

“There weren’t always dragons in the Valley.” I try my hardest not to roll my eyes at the puppet master's statement as he begins his play. Little did the puppet master know there have always been dragons in the Valley, they just didn’t make their presence known until fifty years ago. That fateful day of the Blood Moon celebration marked the largest death count the Valley has ever seen. I wasn’t yet born but everyone is taught the history of the Battle of the Blood Moon. It was the night the dragons came and laid siege to the Valley. As history is told, there were no survivors, and yet, there is every recollection of what happened that night. Makes you wonder whom the history was mouthed from.