Desert • Flower | TaeJin || BOOK 3#

III. Realizing what is important

Taehyung has made the attempt himself to plant flowers. If they won't come up because he makes them come up, maybe they will if he plants them. However, that action has not yielded any fruit. The flowers wilt anyway, as if his soil is not strong enough for them or something. Taehyung doesn't know how to take it. Anyway, the lady of the house has given him many packets with seeds, he doesn't know how expensive they are and doesn't understand that this is a luxury; neither is eating with the two of them from time to time, as if he were someone else in the family. Although he doesn't understand it, the other workers do.

It is possible to notice that there is favoritism towards Taehyung or rather paternal treatment. They have given him clothes, let him go to some classes in the nearby village where there is a school, given him candies that are not cheap, fulfilled some whims. These are acts that do not usually happen between servant and master, unless there is an interest at stake. Everyone knows that it is not a bad or perverse interest, they know their master well and know that he is not capable of something like that with a small child, however, it must be emphasized because it is peculiar.

There seems to be an interest, but it is not clear what kind of interest it is.

None of this takes Taehyung's mind off the fact that he wants to grow flowers. His aspiration is to grow flowers, but he doesn't succeed. Even in class, Taehyung can't get the answer. No matter how much he asks the teachers about it, no one gives him a satisfactory answer. No matter how hard Taehyung and his dragon try to make flowers, he comes up with anything but that. He has made some fruits grow that they didn't even know about. They had to do a lot of looking in books at the town hall to find out what the hell they were called and they were guavas, parchita and kiwi. It was an amazing discovery, at the same time a little disappointing, Taehyung wanted flowers.

"I want to make flowers." whines the impatient child, looking at the small garden left in his care. It was a birthday present of sorts. Now he has his own space to experiment as he wants and that it doesn't matter if he explodes.

That way he also won't be able to damage or do anything strange to the plantings they have in the house.

"Why don't you create flowers?" Taehyung asks turning to the dragon, the creature gurgles and lowers its head. "Come on create flowers" Taehyung asks it at the same time massaging its entire snout moving the skin and making scratches, it fails to perceive due to its own texture. "FLO-WERS" Taehyung emphasizes childishly. "What part of flower don't you understand." he whines dramatically.

It strikes him that the dragon begins to runny, its eyes watery and whiskers quiet, next to its body lying on the ground: disappointed in itself. Taehyung pouts and tilts his head to one side before stroking it between the eyes and head.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you and I didn't want you to feel sad" Taehyung strokes him to comfort him and the dragon does nothing but gurgle complacently. "Maybe we do grow a lot, if we are very big we can make flowers don't you think AH! THAT'S IT HAS TO BE!" he exclaims jumping up surprising the dragon. "If we are small and weak the flowers won't want to come with us! Because they need to be protected!"

Somehow that cannot be understood Taehyung ended up on the dragon's back suffering trying to stay up, he is not a very big bodied dragon, he is not very strong either so in spite of everything, having a child like Taehyung on his back costs.

"We are going to be very big and strong and so we will have many flowers to take care of" announces Taehyung hugging his dragon by the neck. "They will show us their beautiful color their beautiful scent their-"

The dragon drops its legs stretched out on the ground, half conscious and already tired from having so much weight on it. Taehyung blinks repetitively and looked around, he thought his dragon could carry him.

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"Clothes like this are uncomfortable."

"I know, but don't you like how pretty it is?"

"Yes! Yes I really like it like this!" exclaims Taehyung smiling. "Why do I have these clothes? Only nobles are supposed to wear them and I'm not a noble."

"Maybe you're not by birth, but it doesn't stop you from being able to wear these clothes" says the lady with a smile as she helps him finish putting on his hanbok and tying his hair. "Look how handsome you are. I'm sure in the future you'll be even more handsome."

Taehyung tilts his head to the side looking at himself in the mirror. Not just to see his reflection even in the water. Doing so makes him a little afraid. Sometimes they have the feeling that he is always dirty. Taehyung confirms that he has a huge dirt stain on his cheek. The elegantly tied hair, the new hanbok and so on is overshadowed because his face is dirty, his hands look huge and he carries the idea that he soils the garment inside.

His worries go away when Taehyung sees his dragon, he jumps and enjoys that he put a bow around his neck. He rushes over and almost collides his head with Taehyung until he almost knocks him down. He decides not to think about it anymore, because at the end of the day what's it going to matter. It's something that happens unintentionally, it's part of his persona. Taehyung and earth have a special connection, that's why he always has a bit of earth attached to him consciously or unconsciously.

He is the possessor of an earth dragon.

To hate the earth is to hate his dragon.

To hate the earth is to hate flowers.

And the truth is that he loves flowers and his dragon. Both equally.