Crestron Tech Support

  • Subscribe to our RSS feed.
  • Twitter
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Facebook
  • Digg

Tuesday, 29 October 2013

Nightmare Fuel, Day 27. Dragonbones

Posted on 05:52 by Unknown

For this one I ignored what the picture looked like and instead used the one in my head.

The ones in my head are always much prettier.
 Chas Redmond on Flickr
 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34768732@N00/19031262
Creative Commons Attribution license.



"Dragonbones"
by L Czhorat Suskin


Some say that the bones were the remains of a gargantuan beast caught by the island's mightiest fisherman.


Some say that the great beast was not captured, but crawled out of the sea to die, that the elements flensed its bones clean of meat or that the long-ago villagers devoured it.

Some say that the bones were always there, long before people. That the dragon - for they are the bones of a dragon - were leftover from the making of the world.

Some say many things, even secret things. That it is the dragonbones that bring good fishing and pleasant weather. That isn't what matters. What does is that the bones have been there as long as anyone could remember. That arches of its ribs, taller than a house, bent upward to the great spine, forming a sort of tunnel. That even on the calmest day, a steady breeze blew through the archways. Some say that this breeze was the breath of the very island. Each year at Midwinter the villagers would gather for the dragonbone festival. The bravest and strongest would walk through the archway and against the wind, which would increase in power to a gale capable of speeding the fastest ships.

No things remain the same forever, and the people of the dragonbones one day learned that they had a ruler, a man who'd won control of the island in some dispute with another who did not own it. The ruler sent envoys and surveyors and, eventually, governors to each of his new islands, where one of them found the dragonbones and their mysterious wind.

Now the ruler was and enlightened man, believing in knowledge over all else. Enlightened men seek to take the world apart, to see its inner workings. That is one thing which elightenment is. So came more surveyors, scientists, astrologers (an enlightened man leaves no avenue unexplored) and all their entourages, followers, hangers-on.

They studied the dragonbones, they measured the breath of the island.

After a months' time they reluctantly told the leader they'd learned nothing. The fault was not, they told him, entirely theirs. To properly study a thing requires laboratories with bright artificial lamps, powerful microscopes, the various arcane tools of the scientists' mystery. A sandy beach populated with bare-breasted native women  was simply not the place for undistracted, uninterrupted science.

The bones were taken.

The ruler was an enlightened man. He wanted science, wanted to learn, but wouldn't leave the islanders without their dragonbone festival. A new set of plaster-cast bones arrived, weeks before the midwinter festival.

On the island's coldest night, their bravest and strongest walked through the plaster archways, against a mysterious wind.

Some say that the plaster bones have always been there, long before people to make them.
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Posted in Ink, Nightmare Fuel, Writing | No comments
Newer Post Older Post Home

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Popular Posts

  • WHAT IS CRESTRON?
    Crestron is headquartered at Crestron Electronics, Inc . 15 Volvo DriveRockleigh, NJ 07647 Crestron Asia Ltd . Room 2501, 25/F, Westin Cen...
  • Do Crestron have any hardware?
    CRESTRON HARDWARE Unlike other automation hardware, Crestron has a wide range of products extending past touch panel interfaces. Their line...
  • Apple announces iPad 2 and iOS 4.3
    Apple announced the much anticipated iPad 2 today. The new tablet's design is 33 percent thinner and 15 percent lighter than the origina...
  • Women in AV (and everywhere else)
    "Daddy, do any girls work with you," -- Chloe, age 5 on the eve of Take Your Children to Work day (see  earlier blog post) I work,...
  • An afternoon visit with Extron
    I've not talked about Extron here recently since my visit to Anaheim for their training school nearly two years ago. Since then, two Inf...
  • Control 4 on "The View" on ABC
    Control4 on "The View" on ABC Dr. Gadgets just came back from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas and shows us the co...
  • Difference between Crestron and Control4
    History of the Industry The industry started evolving rapidly back in the eighties. Two Control companies (Crestron and AMX) were the domin...
  • Back to School (or why no book reviews lately?)
    I've talked about AV, about writing, and about reading on here, but since April's review of Mary Robinette Kowal's Glamour in Gl...
  • My my, what a big screen you have!
    We've all seen them. Conference rooms the size of a walk-in closet in which the client wants (and the salesperson sold) a display the ap...
  • SONOS INTRODUCES THE PLAY:3
    SONOS INTRODUCES THE PLAY:3 Sonos has just introduced the SONOS PLAY:3, the compact, all-in-one Sonos player with wall-to-wall HiFi sound. U...

Categories

  • A
  • A to Z
  • ADA
  • AMX
  • arsitek
  • automation
  • AV
  • AVB
  • Baseball
  • Blog
  • Blog Hop
  • Blog Tour
  • Book Review
  • Books
  • BSFW
  • Carousel
  • certification
  • Clear One
  • commute
  • Constraints
  • consulting
  • coursera
  • crestron
  • D
  • design
  • Digital Media
  • Disney
  • E
  • Enova
  • Extron
  • F
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • flash
  • flash fiction
  • Friday Flash
  • G
  • Gaming
  • gender
  • Glamour in Glass
  • green AV
  • Guest Post
  • H
  • HDBaseT
  • Hearing
  • home
  • I
  • Infocomm
  • Infocomm 2013
  • Infocomm13
  • Ingress
  • Ink
  • integrasi
  • integration
  • J
  • K
  • Knowledge
  • Long Island City
  • luxury
  • M
  • May I?
  • Mets
  • Mic
  • Mobile
  • ModPo
  • N
  • Naomi's Story
  • Nightmare Fuel
  • O
  • Parenting
  • Passover
  • Pixels
  • Poetry
  • politics
  • Q
  • Quality
  • R
  • RA Dickey
  • Reading
  • review
  • reviews
  • Riley
  • Riley's Story
  • S
  • savant
  • school
  • SOPA
  • Sophie Duncan
  • storytelling
  • summer
  • SVSI
  • switchers
  • T
  • technology
  • tragedy
  • Training
  • TV
  • U
  • V
  • Video blogging
  • W
  • women in av
  • Work
  • Writing
  • X
  • XLR
  • XTP
  • Y
  • Yarnmen
  • year end
  • Z

Blog Archive

  • ▼  2013 (51)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ▼  October (29)
      • Nightmare Fuel, Day the 30th. Wrapping up a month ...
      • Nightmare Fuel, Day the 28th. Attick Door
      • Nightmare Fuel, Day 27. Dragonbones
      • Nightmare Fuel, Day 26 - Enlightenment
      • Nightmare Fuel, Day the 25th. In the Fog
      • NMF Day 24 - Who You Gonna Call?
      • Nightmare Fuel Day 23 - The Canny Ones
      • Nightmare Fuel - Day 22 - I Dare You
      • Nightmare Fuel Day 19 - The Heretic
      • Nightmare Fuel, Day the 21st: The Painting
      • NMF, Day the 20th. Not my Coven
      • Nightmare Fuel, Day the 19th. A Sketch, a Craft, a...
      • Nightmare Fuel, Day the 18th. A fable.
      • Nightmare Fuel, Day the 17th
      • Nightmare Fuel, Day the Sixteenth. At the Crossroads.
      • Nightmare Fuel, Day the Fifteenth. In which I writ...
      • Nightmare Fuel, Day the 14th
      • Nightmare Fuel, Day 13. This is a Silent Protest
      • Nightmare Fuel Day 12 - At the Wall
      • Nightmare fuel, Day 11: a Week of Death
      • Nightmare Fuel, Day the 10th. An Experiment
      • Nightmare Fuel, Day the Ninth. The Examined Life
      • Nightmare Fuel Day the Eight - The Year of Average...
      • Nightmare Fuel, Days 4 and 5
      • NightMare Fuel, Day the 7th - The Art of Murder
      • Nightmare Fuel, Day the Sixth
      • Nightmare Fuel, Day the Third. Checkup Day
      • Nightmare Fuel - Day the Second (and revisit the f...
      • Nightmare Fuel 2013 - Day the First
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  June (5)
    • ►  May (3)
    • ►  April (4)
    • ►  March (5)
    • ►  February (1)
  • ►  2012 (63)
    • ►  December (4)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  October (3)
    • ►  September (4)
    • ►  August (4)
    • ►  July (4)
    • ►  June (2)
    • ►  May (10)
    • ►  April (25)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  January (5)
  • ►  2011 (9)
    • ►  July (4)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (3)
    • ►  February (1)
  • ►  2010 (6)
    • ►  October (1)
    • ►  June (2)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  February (1)
  • ►  2007 (8)
    • ►  November (3)
    • ►  October (5)
Powered by Blogger.

About Me

Unknown
View my complete profile