Downed Dragon.

Tooth thoughts during and after the raid. Beatles Musical Extravaganza. Week 3. Blackbird.

Slicing through the night sky

The dragon dives; the humans below hear

The shriek of a Night Fury.

Black against the night sky, he is invisible.

The others dragons raid, stealing food

But the black dragon destroys

Catapults, towers, and other

Targets of opportunity. He

Is knocked off balance,

No, falls from the sky, his shriek

Heard only by a boy. The Night Fury

Is sleek and black, invisible

And lethal. The Night Fury is

Struck down, bound, alone.

He watches the pigeons fly.

One tailfin is missing, lost in the crash.

He breathes, but shall not live.

As he and all his species know

A downed dragon is a dead dragon.