The Dragons of Persephone

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The Dragons of Persephone

By the time Humans arrived in Persephone, they were impressed by some of the life forms found in that world. One of the most impressive views was that of giant creatures that used to fly around the top of some mountains, in which they built their nests in the rock projections, from the rigid algae that grew in the nearby coasts, they housed dozens of eggs, which would be the next generation of those peculiar beings, who were called dragons by their discoverers.

The Dragons of Persephone, were the biggest flying species that inhabited the planet, they had the aspect of colossal serpents of ten meters long, endowed with a pair of wings, similar to those of the bats, with a wingspan of about twenty meters and two pairs of legs finished in claws, with which they clung to the walls of the mountains where they made their nests.

Their head, also similar to that of a large snake, was crowned with a large plume, which they could fold and extend, according to their state of mind, changing this colour, also according to their mood.

By the time humans first arrived in Persephone, its population on the planet was about five hundred thousand. But the planet was in a period of massive extinction; caused by an unusual vulcanism, which, at the end of the following five thousand years, reduced by twenty percent the native species of the planet, among them the Dragons.

The remains of some of his last specimens were preserved and placed in a permanent exhibition at the Museum of Life in Dione and are part of the exhibition of extinct non-terrestrial species.

Text of @amart29 Barcelona, Venezuela, December 2019

The Dragons of Persephone

The Dragons of Persephone

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