The Fool's Story

[intrepia]

'Tis a marvel, 'tis a wonder:
a great serpent I have seen
caved above that hill high yonder,
covered with scales of blue 'n' green!
Oft-times tears drip from her eyes;
she cries out a great wail!
And when you take her by surprise,
she breathes fire and whips her tail!

It was another of the girl's half-mad songs. She sang them so often that no one

Comments

[intrepia]

Thank you! That's an incredible compliment, especially because I really don't consider myself a fiction writer at all. In fact, depending on how you count, this might be considered the first "story" I've ever written...

[prissi]

oh man. loved it. loved it so. ♥ I think you outdo yourself every week.
you're such a wonderful story-weaver.

[prissi]

I do wish you'd tell more though! What of the dragon when her egg was returned? How did the queen come about the dragon egg? >.>

[intrepia]

Oh oops! I meant to mention in the story somewhere that the Queen came by the egg because some knight gave it to her as a token of his affections. I guess I left that out by accident in the middle of everything else I was trying to remember to include. And I imagine the dragon would be very happy to have her egg returned and would be friends with the Fool again and maybe even help out the village in some way to show her gratitude.

[prissi]

sharing from her vast horde of treasure, maybe? ooooh. :D thanks for tying up some of the loose ends in my head. <3

[fourzoas]

Wonderful story and intersection; it's compelling and lyrical and, in a way, a bit of a love story to storytelling.

[intrepia]

Thank you so much! The interesting thing is that for a while we were thinking of having the Fool be a sort of unemployed poet, but then I decided that I'm not so good at rhyming poetry and besides fiction alone would be enough of a challenge for me. So it became a story about storytelling instead of a story about rhymes, and I think it actually worked out much better this way!

[kateshort]

STANDING OVATION.

This was brilliant. You both rock *so hard* in this!

[intrepia]

Thank you! I was honestly pretty apprehensive about it -- I guess I feel like I can at least gauge the quality of my own poetry pretty well, but I'm so out of my element in fiction that I couldn't really get a feel on whether I would have liked it if I hadn't been the one writing it -- so I really appreciate the cheers! <3

[roina_arwen]

Awesome. I loved the way you wove both tales together. Well done!

[intrepia]

Thank you! I really enjoyed my previous Intersections too, but I thought the really awesome thing about this one was being able to write just one story together rather than two distinct, thematically-connected entries. It was awesome to be able to collaborate with someone else to that level of detail!