by Galician Ah'ren Cladra | Apr 9, 2018 | Content, Dragonwhore (Journal)
Dragonwhore. Those words had actually come out of Kestrel’s mouth with the idea that I’d be happy now? He had elevated the term so that I’d think it was some vast compliment? This was his way of justifying his actions? The anger I’d felt building up just … burst...
by Galician Ah'ren Cladra | Apr 2, 2018 | Content, Dragonwhore (Journal)
(Note: I discovered in looking back that my journals became a running narrative while I worked through these first, difficult weeks. I think that by telling myself a story – making it a kind of novel, if you will – it moved me slightly to one side of the drama and...
by Galician Ah'ren Cladra | Mar 26, 2018 | Content, Dragonwhore (Journal)
Where do I begin to put into words what has happened to me? It has been days since I wrote in my journal, and still … it is a struggle to gather my thoughts. I suppose I should just start and scribble down anything that comes into my head. There was Lark, who...
by Galician Ah'ren Cladra | Mar 19, 2018 | Content, Dragonwhore (Journal)
I … wasn’t sure I’d slept last night, but I must have, because when I awoke there was a man standing at the foot of my bed. “How did you get in here?” I asked, when what I really wanted to know was, “Why did you get in here?” He just stood there, with a bit of a...
by Galician Ah'ren Cladra | Mar 12, 2018 | Content, Dragonwhore (Journal)
Well, here I am. I’m officially a Lycee student. It was hard to say goodbye to my parents and my siblings this morning; my parents, especially, seemed sad. I reminded them that I would be home at week’s end – that this was not goodbye forever. I suppose all...
by Galician Ah'ren Cladra | Mar 5, 2018 | Content, Dragonwhore (Journal)
My name is Ah’ren. Galician Ah’ren Cladra. My parents and my siblings and I live on the Achernarean island of Boranth, where my parents raise oranges and verdanbutters, and the air is still clear and fresh. Farmers do not have the status they once had on Equus, but...