Celadon Crown | Wingless Lotus Pond Dragon with Bronze Horns

The story of Celadon Crown

A fictional story inspired by the artwork.

The dragon rests low in the shallows with its front feet on a flat stretch of water. A branching crown of bronze-colored horns rises above its celadon scales. Pink lotus blooms surround the creature, and its tail bends back into the lily pads toward the gold light at the far side of the pond.

In local stories, the dragon waits for the first flowers to open before leaving the shelter of the reeds. Gardeners know which part of the pond it has visited by the clean path it leaves between the pads. If that path ends early, they look for a branch or a fallen stem blocking the outlet on the far bank.

The soft green body shares its colors with the leaves, but the horns and pale underside make the head easy to find. A low horizon gives the crown room to stand against the light. Ripples around the tail carry the eye back toward the foreground flowers, where deeper pinks mark the edge of the water.

A story could begin when a gardener follows that path and finds a branch tied across the outlet. Before cutting it free, the gardener might want to know who put it there and why the dragon has stayed beside it all morning.

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