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[01 Jan 2013] [InCryptid] Possible People
Title: Possible People
Day/Theme: 01. maybe god can be on both sides of the gun
Series: InCryptid (by Seanan McGuire)
Character/Pairing: Dominic
Rating: PG
Content Notes: Mention of (canonical) near-genocide of a non-human sapient species; Discount Armageddon spoilers.
Dominic De Luca had a report to write and he wasn't sure how to begin it.
Oh, he'd written field reports before, both in practice and as part of one of the Covenant's teams.
The thing was, he had read plenty of history books about fighting dragons. The Covenant had been named for (and founded by) the patron saint of dragon-slaying after all. Most of them predicted that sending a single person (or two, if you counted Verity Price, and Dominic was certainly unwilling to discount her) was a rather quick way of killing them.
Instead, Verity had negotiated with the dragon, including asking him to keep the peculiar reptile creatures that were men exposed to dragon's blood, from harming the people below. Dominic didn't know how the dragon, his princesses and the servitors would live under a city where the largest sources of meat were the millions of human above them…
… but he was coming to realize he didn't really know how dragons had lived centuries ago, before the Covenant had killed most of the males. Surely, some of them had preyed on men, or on livestock belonging to innocent farmers, or they wouldn't be seen as such a danger.
And unicorns were dangerous creatures that gored people, but their lack had caused cholera epidemics. Or so Verity said her ancestors had taught her, and Dominic knew that unicorns were reported to have been able to unfoul water.
It had been an easier world when the monsters were monsters, and not men and women who worked normal jobs in a normal city, or creatures that humans relied on without knowing it. But Dominic had sworn an oath to protect humanity, so he couldn't turn his back on what might be a true heresy.
Dominic described the lizard creatures in a way that might not tie them to the dragon -- to William, for it (he!) had a name -- but left out William and Verity Price, as well as the other possible people she'd introduced him to.
Day/Theme: 01. maybe god can be on both sides of the gun
Series: InCryptid (by Seanan McGuire)
Character/Pairing: Dominic
Rating: PG
Content Notes: Mention of (canonical) near-genocide of a non-human sapient species; Discount Armageddon spoilers.
Dominic De Luca had a report to write and he wasn't sure how to begin it.
Oh, he'd written field reports before, both in practice and as part of one of the Covenant's teams.
The thing was, he had read plenty of history books about fighting dragons. The Covenant had been named for (and founded by) the patron saint of dragon-slaying after all. Most of them predicted that sending a single person (or two, if you counted Verity Price, and Dominic was certainly unwilling to discount her) was a rather quick way of killing them.
Instead, Verity had negotiated with the dragon, including asking him to keep the peculiar reptile creatures that were men exposed to dragon's blood, from harming the people below. Dominic didn't know how the dragon, his princesses and the servitors would live under a city where the largest sources of meat were the millions of human above them…
… but he was coming to realize he didn't really know how dragons had lived centuries ago, before the Covenant had killed most of the males. Surely, some of them had preyed on men, or on livestock belonging to innocent farmers, or they wouldn't be seen as such a danger.
And unicorns were dangerous creatures that gored people, but their lack had caused cholera epidemics. Or so Verity said her ancestors had taught her, and Dominic knew that unicorns were reported to have been able to unfoul water.
It had been an easier world when the monsters were monsters, and not men and women who worked normal jobs in a normal city, or creatures that humans relied on without knowing it. But Dominic had sworn an oath to protect humanity, so he couldn't turn his back on what might be a true heresy.
Dominic described the lizard creatures in a way that might not tie them to the dragon -- to William, for it (he!) had a name -- but left out William and Verity Price, as well as the other possible people she'd introduced him to.