THE TALE OF DRACO DRAKE AND THE DRAGON DRUID By Dustin Leidner This is the story of a wee little child, 8 years of age, who dreamed a dream. A big dream. Yes, a very big dream indeed. His name was Draco Drake, and he dreamed to be a dragon druid. Yes, that is correct; a dragon druid. Can you see why this is a big dream? First of all, dragons do not exist, and second of all, druids are pretty mythological figures themselves, from an ancient time. And what sense does it make to be a dragon druid anyway? Druidism has nothing to do with dragons, after all. Draco Drake never bothered thinking about these things. He had a dream one day. A dream that he described as dreamy. And in that dream, he was a dragon druid. Ever since he had that dream, he stopped showing up to school, and he would leave home for far too
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much time at a time. Naturally, his friends and family drew a conclusion: he was a delinquent, and should not be dealt with, only ignored. His peers would ask him questions about why he does what he does, but it would always be in vain, since they would never get answers that made a lick of sense. “What is a dragon druid?”, some would ask him. “It’s what I want to be.”, he would say. “But what is that?”, they would press on. “A dragon druid,” he would repeat. Any conversation you tried to have with him would go around in circles. It was useless. So everyone eventually stopped asking him questions about it, then questions in general, then just stopped talking to him altogether. Draco Drake loved this, since it meant no one would ever bother him. He was free to pursue his dream! No more wasted time... Every day, he went to the forest nearby (about a 30-minute
walk from his house), and he would do God knows what. And every day he would wake up (before his parents, even), make himself some cereal, and go straight to the forest. Each time he went, he stayed a little longer, until he would stay there till evening, come back home, sleep, and repeat. Draco Drake was dedicated to nothing but realizing his dream to become a dragon druid. He did this everyday for 11 years. At some point during that time, Draco Drake left home for good and started living in the forest. It’s obvious that his parents didn’t really care about him, so it was not a hard decision for Draco Drake at all. He stopped caring about all those things that held him back from becoming a dragon druid: friends, family, his whole social life in general. He stopped caring about the outside world entirely. Nothing else mattered besides becoming a dragon druid. He didn’t even bother , with hygiene, having not