THE SIXTH REALM: INDIGO — An important chair

The following days were full of attempts. Some went well; others, less so.

Once she tried to create a comfortable seat, and a chair appeared, so tall and imposing that it seemed made for presiding over an assembly of important dragons. Skyblue looked at it. The chair awaited her, magnificent, in the middle of a place where there was no one to preside over.

She laughed until her sides hurt.

“That one was for one of the little Skyblues,” she admitted.

The chair lost its stiffness, grew faint, and disappeared. The dragon sat on the grass.

For years Skyblue had held back her laughter so as not to upset the adults. Now she could laugh at her own foolishness and go on learning.

Images of the Blue Planet came more and more clearly, but she no longer spent her days waiting to leave this place. She still had much to learn beside the oak.