The Dragon Within
I gently placed my hand on Elric’s arm and nudged him aside so I could face his father. He was still angry, but the look of hatred was gone from his eyes. Now there was only fear and uncertainty.
“I am truly sorry I have brought my dilemma to your doorstep. I am so grateful to you and Anora for taking care of me and loving me for the last eighteen years, but you are right. I am a danger to you and this village. I have to turn myself in to the Dark Lord, and maybe he will leave you alone. You have survived for 300 years without me. I cannot see what possible difference I can make.”
Elric spun me around to face him. “No, I can’t believe you’re giving up. What happened to the girl who used to follow me around everywhere and get us into all sorts of trouble, and who made me teach her how to use a sword? What happened to the girl who used to pretend to fight shape-shifters and Litui? You are a fighter. You have fire in your blood, so don’t give up now.”
Elric held me at arm’s length, but I wanted nothing more than to close the gap and let him hold and protect me, but I shrugged his hands away and moved closer to Fitch.
“I’m not strong enough to be the person you want me to be. Those were just games we played when we were young and naïve. I’m a nobody who is lost and alone and will just cause pain to the ones I care about.”
Feeling lost and trapped with seemingly no way out are common emotions. Everyone at some point in their lifes have hit walls that seemed impassable, I know I have, but somehow you fight and and claw your way back up to the top and you are stronger than you were before. That’s the power of the human spirit and even though Karah isn’t human she has some of our strongest qualities, but also some of our worst. Dragons, magic and the supernatural fuel our imaginations creating beautiful deadly worlds but the core of our stories are about being human, and what it means to us.
I hope you enjoy Karahs journey has she tries to discover her destiny and like me I hope you choose to listen to and never silence your dragon within.
