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
今更ながら14.17
最高潮14.64
若しや13.84
ながら11.91
12.90
深く13.06
帰す13.93
呼吸13.43
毎日13.21
微笑み13.30
とりあえず12.73
理解12.49
という物12.99
求める13.21
静かに13.02
ですら13.29
気丈14.44
12.74
二人きり13.85
13.47
年老い15.08
12.82
重ねて13.65
混じる13.46
時の12.80
詫びる14.38
上下13.77
感じ12.29
時折13.49
手探り14.60
何日も14.36
ええ12.61
よもや14.39
みたいな12.70
12.53
でかい13.66
柔らかい13.35
なるほど12.67
尖った14.13
ならぬ13.59
かつて13.09
12.68
12.13
小さい12.69
掻く13.85
ものですか14.53
過ぎる12.60
忌憚のない15.37
12.96
一幅14.03
わけが無い13.49
変わらない13.12
12.98
14.23
14.28
飲む12.84
驚く12.62
あんなに13.52
替え14.19
木の芽15.70
いい12.05
体調13.59
同時に12.65
浮かぶ12.94
幽か13.93
三日13.50
として11.89
肉塊14.28
いつ13.24
望み通り14.67
明日12.80
12.62
幼い13.35
こう12.92
落った13.58
薄い13.15
見る12.00
売り言葉に買い言葉15.09
梳る15.70
生涯13.91
聞く11.95
連れ込み15.52
美しさ13.72
運動13.74
怒鳴る13.71
12.13
在る21.55
恋しい24.23
暮らす23.59
恨む23.75
楽しい22.76
これまで23.00
笑う22.45
気持ち22.61
22.24
ばかり22.53
それが22.31
経つ23.15
烏兎24.54
寄せ23.32

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