Conversation overheard, deep in the caverns beneath the Temple of the Moon.
Sees The Moon: What nonsense is this? Lived less than 100 years? That's ridiculous!
Sees The Moon: Now, hush, Sees, you know she's telling the truth!
Sees The Moon: Oh do I now? I can't even see if she's got a scroll in her hand, let alone read it!
Sees The Moon: SeizeTheMoon, look at the Troll and...
Human The Chronicler: Human... I am a human!!!
SeizeTheMoon: Whatever. I can't read this, Sees The Moon, it's nothing but Human gibberish!
Human The Chronicler: I don't need to read it! We were all short-lived humans once! Until.. until...
SeizeTheMoon: Yes, yes, we know all about the holocaust, seems like there's one every century or two. And it is always going to be the end of the world... but, what do you know, we're all still here... living a damn sight longer than 100 years!
Sees The Moon: Oh, back on topic, wonderful! Troll, aka Human, we didn't get our first set of scales completed in less than a hundred years.
Sees The Moon: About 150 years, I think it was...
Sees The Moon: Don't interrupt. We can't possibly be expected to remember what we were doing back then. I certainly have no recollection of being a human! And I know I'm not dead.
Sees The Moon: The very thought is making me nauseous - barely a hatchling raised to adulthood, and it's all over?! How tragic, if true!
SeizeTheMoon: Ahem...
Sees The Moon: Yes, Abbott, you have something to contribute?
SeizeTheMoon: I, uh, I remember humans when I was very very young. Possibly younger than 100 years... Some of them I remember were quite distinctly wizened, as a very old dragon might come to resemble. I remember, I asked if they were sick.
Human The Chronicler: See, we existed back then!
Sees The Moon: WE existed back then. Perhaps, Human, you did not? Hmm? If you are Human, and all the humans either died or became dragons eons ago, which are you - dead? Or the Bright-Breasted Wyvern you so closely resemble? Hmm?
Human The Chronicler: (gazing at her reflection in a shiny sheet of crystal) Do you think I do? Resemble a Bright, I mean? Yes, I do have a certain colourful style, wouldn't you say? Certainly a brilliant shade of green for my wings, but what a unique Bright-Breasted dragon I'd be, the only one with wings and arms, so very useful hands are, you know... if I just had a more spectacular display of red-breast! Yes, very attractive...
Sees The Moon: Now, look what you've done! We'll get no sense out of her now!
Sees The Moon: Oh? Was there a time when we could have gotten sense out of her?
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