Dragons may read minds, but they don’t do anything with that except try to help you.
Yes, Dragons have the power to change your minds. It’s part of how they have the power to anticipate your wants and needs: sometimes a certain creation of desire gets involved.
But Dragons only read your mind for your own good.
(Honest. Would a Dragon lie to a monkey?)
And Dragons only change your mind in ways you want.
Or ways you WILL want, eventually.
(Honest. Would a Dragon lie to a monkey?)
At any rate, Dragon Brains have all the interesting stuff, and your friends are there.
Do you want to miss out?
In the folklore of ancient times, like, say, fifteen years ago, Dragons are large magical creatures whose lust for treasure and perpetual brandy-flambeaux breath are things of legend. They have always been mysterious to humans, which is hardly unexpected when you figure that we’re dealing with creatures several orders of magnitude older, incomprehensibly smarter, and not terribly inclined to share their personal lives with primates.
But ideas tend to perspire through the assorted walls of assorted worlds, and while it can’t be said exactly what led them to be inspired, a whole generation of humanfolk began to get glimpses of the rare, thunderous lizards. In fact, it started to be more than just glimpses. Dragons bled out of myth, through legend, and into consensus reality.
Everyone knew that thoughts exist somewhere in the semi-definable plane between magick and understanding.
What if we could amplify thought, all thought, such that not only mages and sorcerous beings could access the ability to reach a large audience, but that it was, in fact, available to all?
(Or a Chosen “all”–but hey, the Chosen have always been, definitionally, special in this Universe.)
What if everyone could be Chosen?
Or ALMOST-everyone?
Everyone but those of whom the Dragons disapproved; but the Dragons were altruistic. They never referenced their own Treasure even once, no matter how large a part that played in their own decisions.
Why aren’t you letting Dragons into a portion of your mind?
What is it that you’re hiding?
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This piece is part of a number from the 2023 era where I ended things with questions. My older self would be scandalized, but…I may rewrite just a couple of last year’s endings.
It was a particularly rough year.
