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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Statistics

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
と言うものは13.72
驚く12.62
慣れる13.12
読み13.20
間違いない13.07
増す13.62
切ない14.07
過ぎる12.60
12.13
のに12.21
13.47
呟き13.31
美しさ13.72
居る12.39
いい12.05
それから12.79
知らない12.68
果てしなく14.71
兄弟13.59
望み通り14.67
12.09
肉塊14.28
伴侶13.94
供に13.75
年老い15.08
寄せる13.71
意地13.87
脅し13.90
幼き14.44
12.82
12.51
一つ12.53
13.21
土砂14.34
泣く13.07
14.29
13.61
のでは12.62
二度13.63
14.23
13.39
見詰める14.03
12.74
と共に12.60
知る12.11
芳しい14.50
なぁ12.56
分かる12.00
朽ち果てる14.70
一幅14.03
12.15
一握15.94
恐れる13.76
少しずつ13.39
来年13.91
ゆっくり12.72
まま12.40
12.86
熾す14.84
ならぬ13.59
ものですか14.53
そう言った13.01
やも知れぬ14.57
として11.89
こと無く13.11
何度も12.93
何の12.78
多い12.52
四十13.76
とは11.95
感じ12.29
教わる13.70
最高潮14.64
横たわる13.82
12.02
始めて13.15
本当に12.34
謝る13.20
前に12.25
腹を壊す15.59
揺らす13.50
体調13.59
14.28
12.11
明後日13.81
狩る13.44
共に13.28
浮かべる12.57
12.86
動かす12.95
故郷13.41
意固地14.92
二十歳14.14
なるほど12.67
泣き叫ぶ14.27
薄い13.15
12.98
12.57
ままに13.37
半ば13.39

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