Dragon (Our Strange and Wonderful House)

A Dragon was one of the last people to leave the Strange and Wonderful House on the day of its Fall, alongside an incarnation of Jenny Everywhere.

Jenny and the Dragon watched forlornly as a bolt of lightning shot down from the “lead-coloured sky” and struck the House. A blue fire consumed the vast bulk of the House within moments, leaving nothing but ruins which crumbled into the Tarn. After a long moment of silence, the Dragon declared: “So it goes. All things must have their time”, before asking Jenny if she “ha[s] taken everything [she] need[s]”. She showed the Dragon the House seed before pocketing it, and, with no further ceremony, the two walked off elsewhere, leaving behind the silent shores of the Tarn. (PROSE: Our Strange and Wonderful House: The Fall of the Strange and Wonderful House)

Behind the scenes

This Dragon could variously be interpreted as any of the multiple Dragons mentioned to inhabit various areas of the House in earlier chapters, as writer Jeanne Morningstar's in-universe avatar (depicted as a Dragon in Our Strange and Wonderful Family), or, given the degree to which the Fall of the Strange and Wonderful House is a metafictional analogue for the demise of the Ficly website, as an allusion to Jeanne Morningstar's last-ever Ficly story other than The Fall of the Strange and Wonderful House, Facing the Dragon (which was not otherwise related to the Strange and Wonderful House mythos).