Tuesday's Table

This week, I am working on all of the backlog of inventory that I have yet to post.  


A daunting task--but definitely an enjoyable one!


Today's listings are special...  I actually made them quite awhile ago, but I have been struggling with the story.  Every time I looked at them, I thought of dragons--but I have so many dragon stories already in my store.


This one, however, is delightfully different.


And so I present:

Dragon Daughter

Close-up of hairsticks

Oooo, look!  It has a dangle!

Matching earrings

The story:





Contrary to what one might think, the dragons in Landus Fantasticus make excellent parents. Both males and females take turns guarding their eggs, and are much like mother crocodiles—vigilant, and dangerous if provoked. After all, dragon eggs are precious and rare; female dragons only lay eggs every 100 years or so, and they can take quite awhile to hatch. For this reason, it is rare for dragons to allow anyone—or anything—near their developing eggs.


Rare—but not impossible.


Legends tell the story of Verenyth, a mother dragon who once found a human infant abandoned near her cave. The motives of dragons are always unfathomable... Although no one knows why, she and her mate raised the infant girl as their own, alongside their own brood of dragonlings.


The needs for human infants are considerably different than those of dragon infants, but both the dragons and their charge learned to adapt. The child grew into a young woman, who play-wrestled with her foster siblings and who learned the dragon tongue before human language. 


She was named Sheranyth—Dragon Daughter.


With black the color of Sheranyth's hair, and the red of her foster-mother's scales, this pair of hairsticks and pair of earrings look as if it could have belonged to the Dragon Daughter—a reminder that a parent's love does not have to be determined by blood.




And be sure to check out the listings here!