The Dragon: A Tragedy

Fear

** Artemis POV 

I was helping prepare the water baths for my sister like she asked, with the help of our servant Felicia. Doing so, I felt a strange presence in our house, and I focused on the sounds around me to find out what the presence was. Looking up from where I was crouched down, I see a pair of red eyes and suddenly everything goes black.

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**Savannah POV

I jolted awake from my dreams, waking up to a fluorescent sunrise through my window. Recently, I’ve been having dreams about that day, the day my life shattered and everything fell apart. The dreams always become more vivid the more I remember, so I’ve been taking extra sleeping pills to relieve the pain of my past. I would like to think the pills work, but I’d be lying to myself because human made medicine doesn’t work on me. 

During these dreams, more like night terrors, my birth name often rings in my head, Junia. It’s the name my mother gave me, the only thing she ever gave me, because, well I never met her. But besides that, I had to change my name to Savannah because of the stupid fear humans have of supernaturals. I had to change the only gift my mother ever gave me because of humans. That’s why I’ve hidden many things of mine for my son one day so when I pass, which I hope won't happen, he will have something to remember me by. Until then, I’m going to make sure my son is safe from the real monsters of the world. Those who are humans...