365 Days of Drabbles, Day One Hundred Seventy-Five

For mehhayperson: “Something from The Dragon's Companion 'verse - when does the dragon wake up? How well does Teal rule in his stead? Does anything come up before he wakes that makes her miss him?”

Note: Sorry, avanti_90. I kept trying to come with something for your prompt and I came up blank every time. Perhaps I'll return to it later.

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Philosopher dreams in his stone shell, deep in his cave, deep rest after so many years of wakefulness.

He has a Companion now. A human to guide him in the ways of humans as he rules them. He is now the ruler of all he surveys.

And the link between them does not let him escape the truth of this marriage of souls. His Companion hates him.

This should not be. Did he not give her such power in return for mere obedience?

The dragon shifts in his sleep uneasily, and the mountain trembles as his shell begins to crack.

Programming Note: Drabbles, FYS and IFTC

Fair Warning: I'm strongly considering putting the 365 Days of Drabbles project on hold for half a year when I hit Day 182. I need to crack down and finish I Fought the Claw.... I'm also considering reworking and expanding Mimsey's Tale to sell as a $0.99 piece as an interim project, since it's been quite some time since I've posted anything new for sale.