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
読み13.20
ここ12.11
泣き叫ぶ14.27
13.57
それは11.95
詫びる14.38
見詰める14.03
言いきる14.88
13.59
14.58
取る12.69
落った13.58
返し13.12
下に13.15
連れ込み15.52
微笑み13.30
飼う13.95
木の芽15.70
その通り13.27
求愛14.90
そうだ12.18
12.86
与える13.03
続く12.90
13.21
掻く13.85
13.39
呑む13.66
時に12.57
年老い15.08
求める13.21
時の12.80
時間12.25
二十年14.25
ものですか14.53
祝詞13.05
飲む12.84
疑う13.25
殊に12.16
生きていく13.95
月日14.40
知恵を絞る15.83
12.11
変わらない13.12
12.74
ても11.96
慣れる13.12
それからというもの15.07
有り難うございました13.41
みたいな12.70
筈がない13.40
教わる13.70
触れ13.33
図体14.52
陽だまり15.05
無言13.22
果てしなく14.71
余り12.47
深く13.06
明日12.80
居る12.39
と言う11.58
横たわる13.82
我慾13.43
反面14.26
ものを12.71
14.28
12.85
十二13.73
もっとも12.94
わけが無い13.49
中央13.07
毎日13.21
運動13.74
もの派12.90
自身12.69
輝く13.03
慌てる12.84
呻く13.89
やれ13.27
続いて13.13
14.09
13.61
とりあえず12.73
のです12.21
野菜13.36
知らない12.68
愛し合う14.54
浮かぶ12.94
手探り14.60
ままに13.37
ただただ13.80
結構12.82
匂い13.08
13.67
生まれる13.03
戴き13.44
暗中模索16.09
肉塊14.28
来年13.91

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