Josephclive99
Kelly looked at the piece of meat he'd just picked up. He looked at the platter, still half full of roasted meat, he looked at the faces around him, and a feeling rose within him that he had no idea how to deal with, a feeling of utter bewilderment and confusion. It was as if a thought and an awareness was trying to dawn in his mind, simultaneously as he was trying to deny to himself a sudden, horrifying realisation. "I don't understand," he repeated for the third time. This might have been a lie or might not. Kelly wasn't sure. All he was sure of was his heart thundering loudly.
This is the story of Kelly, silver dragon and adoptive son of the god Honess, and how he is supported to learn to live with something that stamps an indelible horror and grief onto his mind and thrusts him into a role no one would ever want.
I've written a true introduction in order that it can be enjoyed without prior reading, but you might enjoy the short tales in Dragon Lives about Kelly (there are three of them which all have 'Kelly' in the title). Chapter 18 of the story Immortality describes Kelly's birth.
Following the main part of this story will be some detailed epilogues, two of which will also be broken up into chapters.
Due to the central theme of this story it is most definitely only suitable for adults, however nothing is described too gratuitously and the more grotesque sections are more talked about rather than overtly described. I did originally mark the story as mature but with hindsight I felt this was unnecessary and so have removed the mature marker.
Note that the cover image does not belong to me.