Challenge #04742-L358: Gifted Family

The dragon was very sick, it knew, save for a miracle, it would not survive until its egg hatched. A human woman with an infant, kind, even if very poor. The egg gifted, a vision given, please take care of my child. The hatchling loved the human as if she had given birth to it. And loved its human sibling very much to. -- Anon Guest

Time runs away from all of us. We like to believe we have more than we get. I had thought that the Dragons were lucky to have millennia, but even millennia end. I found that out when I was given my Dragon son. I already had a child of the between kind, quite happy to be neither boy nor girl but enjoy life regardless. But that's neither here nor there... as we frequently joke.

My son came to me by other means. Adventurers steal children. City folk find them in middens or in the gutter. Farmers find them in the woods. Well. Most farmers do. I got mine when a Dragon gifted him to me.

I was teaching my child to plough when the Dragon lit in the fallow field, one leg tucked up near her chest like it was injured. I went running, not for the pitchforks, but for the Dragon. She wasn't going to harm us, and it's always good luck to help a Dragon in need.

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