The Dragon and His Wife

The Dragon and His Wife

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"I shall bite away your life when you are most beautiful and most happy." Thus promised the dragon and the human's daughter. In the dragon's eyes, the daughter's days seemed to be filled with happiness. His wife always smiled beautifully. And yet, now she no longer moves. The poignant and helpless love and fate of a dragon born with the earth and a human with a finite lifespan. (This short story was inspired by a certain tweet the other day and developed into an original short fiction. It has no connection whatsoever to the original tweet's world view, and I have received permission from the tweet's author to publish it.) (Also posted on Kakuyomu and Everista)

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Reading Time
32 min
Words 1,426
Sentences 158
Characters 2,597
Unique Words 553
1-Occurrence Words
386
Unique Kanji 381
1-Occurrence Kanji
219
Avg Word Difficulty 2.22
Avg Sentence Length 9.0

Word List (553 words)

WordFrequencyDifficulty
何度も12.93
脅し13.90
それからというもの15.07
望み通り14.67
伴侶13.94
読み13.20
薄い13.15
であろう13.07
何の12.78
ですら13.29
呻く13.89
と言う11.58
哭く12.05
三十13.45
遠い13.38
梳る15.70
土塊14.65
黙る12.92
返し13.12
妹12.85
何も12.48
住処14.11
その場12.86
ここ12.11
奇麗13.70
やも知れぬ14.57
気12.13
供に13.75
少々13.17
腐る13.60
呟き13.31
係13.47
に連れ13.76
詫び14.31
洞14.28
四十13.76
それに12.23
そこで12.74
熱13.20
歩み寄り14.39
中央13.07
無言13.22
暗闇13.45
鹿13.80
付け12.69
裏13.22
呼吸13.43
風化14.68
崩す13.45
疑う13.25
遺す14.33
埋まる13.77
迎え13.35
じっと13.19
そうだ12.18
自身12.69
そうっと15.18
ならぬ13.59
芳しい14.50
怒る12.88
後悔13.30
拗ねる13.97
浮かぶ12.94
しみじみ13.97
頃12.85
他に13.02
祝詞13.05
七日12.50
として11.89
過ぎる12.60
始めて13.15
死13.03
爪13.21
いい12.05
陽だまり15.05
声12.02
ものか13.30
微笑み13.30
寄せる13.71
見詰める14.03
獣12.86
筈がない13.40
飼う13.95
のでは12.62
不調14.42
ええ12.61
感想13.18
足12.57
間違いない13.07
忌憚のない15.37
動かす12.95
謝る13.20
取る12.69
憎む14.00
変わらない13.12
という物12.99
意地13.87
体操14.26
鼻13.23
我ら13.27

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