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With nothing to hoard, Gloom left the great palace to roam the plateau in search of something. Anything really. Just something to *have*


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Gloom flexed his talons, felt the joints pop one after another. He looked over his shoulder at the expanse behind him-- ash. Spent. Consumed. The land was done with him, and he with it. The palace was barely visible at the edge of the unencompassed horizon, it's spires dull and gray. The once-great dragon flexed his tattered wings, felt the updrafts catching the taught flesh even now, and he leaned into them. He took a deep breath, filling with weak lungs his flight bladders, and pushed off over the water.
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this suits my mood very much to as of late. (also his spirally inlay bits are wonderful)
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He trudged ahead, gazing longingly upward as tiny drops fell upon his snout. The skies seemed so very far away, yet he alone was closest to it than any creature of the land.
The rain came, as it always did, at dusk in these parts. The sounds of nearby insects ceased or were drowned out by the familiar hiss of water. Every footfall was quickly swallowed up by greedy rushing water.
Gloom stopped suddenly. His eyes falling below him as he came to a cliff's edge. The ocean beneath him, what little he could see through the thick sheets of rain, was choppy. Endless crests of white upon gray murky depths.
Did his future home lay beyond this land; over these seemingly endless waters?
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He shuffled his useless wings uncomfortably. Anymore, they were more cloak than appendage. He could glide, sure, but he hadn't flown in... ten years? Fifty? A thousand? Time meant little to Gloom. He set his eyes on the chalk road where it disappeared over the horizon, and lifted one mightily clawed foot in front of the other, going over lists of what he could collect next. Mumbling them to himself.
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But where to settle and would he have to settle for more dust in the form of things? For rot in the form of food? Perhaps a place with permanence awaited and he winced while the wind bit his face. Gloom carried on.
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Something to hold, touch, cherish. All the possessions that came before were gone, and the palace itself was empty. He'd never expected to need to leave so soon. It'd only been a few centuries, after all.

When he'd first come to the palace, there were even people inside and around it. After Gloom moved in, not many of them lasted long, but it wasn't the people he missed, it was their *things*. Eventually, even those diminished, rotted, vanished. Gloom was getting tired of having to constantly watch his collections turn to dust in his hands every few hundred years. He wanted to settle down for once.
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