"Dragon and Djinn" by Karen-Birgitte "Ellemerr" Borud

A Dragon lies in his cave, dulled, dreaming of days of youth, when he rode the skies gathering the treasures he now only guards, half asleep with one eye open as dragons does. In this state his tale waves around without will, and suddenly slides over one of his many trinkets; an old lamp from a distant and magical land…

Imagine his surprise when a human, a great and beautiful woman on his own size, rises in his dark and gloomy cave. His first thought is to burn her with his fiery breath as he has burned so many before, but as the flames licks among his teeth the strange woman smiles to him and from her hand arises another flame, and the dragon realizes this is no human creature, but a being of Magic, like himself… And with that, the days of boredom and loneliness are over…