30 Days - Dragon Weather

[felicitygs]

 It’s dragon weather.

 

Her mother sometimes will say that all fog is dragon weather, but she knows better. There are some very specific things to dragon weather and leave it to an adult to not understand the nuances.

 

Dragon weather is this:

 

Haze and fog so thick you can’t see a yard, grey and misty and shifting constantly, not quite raining but your skin left damp anyway because the fog is so thick you can feel cloud tears bead your skin. Forms half seen and then not seen at all, and the soft breath of the world beneath your feet.

 

She sits on a hill, sees the sheep moving in the fog–dragon’s breath–and listens.

 

Sometimes, though she can’t see, she thinks she hears the beat of a dragon’s wings.