Elisabeth R. Moore is a short fiction writer. She and her wife live in Germany, where Moore writes strange stories about plants, fungus, and queer women. She tweets at @willowcabins. Learn more at spacelesbian.zone.
The dragons are beautiful even when they’re dead, their serpentine bodies stacked up and up, their metallic blue scales glinting under the sun. This close, Mina can see how blank their eyes are through those thin layers of membrane. How empty.
Dragons are not violent by nature, but they hunt what hunts them.
