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
諫める14.94
落とす13.04
美しさ13.72
もっとも12.94
14.58
匂い13.08
伴侶13.94
12.26
呼吸13.43
12.70
13.61
詫びる14.38
往く13.36
莫迦14.02
と言う11.58
それからというもの15.07
間違いない13.07
とは11.95
ても11.96
月日14.40
理解12.49
静かに13.02
12.86
我慾13.43
13.21
筈がない13.40
歩み寄り14.39
倒れる13.23
13.67
いける13.19
きっぱり14.05
ならば12.57
二度13.63
そこで12.74
仰る13.51
嗜める14.49
呼びかけ13.81
確信13.21
故郷13.41
取る12.69
溶ける13.59
泣き叫ぶ14.27
手探り14.60
何日も14.36
時に12.57
三十13.45
13.59
体操14.26
有り難うございました13.41
朽ち果てる14.70
その場12.86
11.46
前に12.25
ええ12.61
若しや13.84
果てしなく14.71
恐らくは13.44
殊に12.16
熾す14.84
ものか13.30
ここ12.11
戴き13.44
であろう13.07
居る12.39
後悔13.30
蹴飛ばす14.40
黙る12.92
やがて13.09
本当に12.34
芳しい14.50
食い13.66
である11.76
14.28
なるほど12.67
飼う13.95
雛鳥15.05
強要14.26
12.31
あけび16.81
最高潮14.64
図体14.52
返し13.12
崩す13.45
慰み15.70
慌てる12.84
聞く11.95
みたいな12.70
のでは12.62
一幅14.03
掛ける13.30
苦労13.22
一葉14.33
混じる13.46
浮かべる12.57
12.13
愛し13.36
意固地14.92
わけが無い13.49
12.74
それに12.23

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