[ OT ] This Week 's Theme - Folklore & Fairytale

Long ago in the Old Land of the dragons, there was a harsh winter one year such as none could remember before. At the end of this winter, there was a great blizzard that lasted for seven days. A young dragon called Gearnar and his wife Kell were stuck inside their home. His wife had a terrible illness, and they could not go out to get help. On the sixth day of the blizzard, when it was the worst it would be until it ceased, Gearnar's wife was near death. Her only wish was that she see something beautiful in the world before she died. 
 `` Bring me a rose,'' she said, `` as bright a rose as you can find.'' Impossible though it may have seemed, Gearnar was a faithful and brave dragon, and so set out to find the rose for his wife. On and on he walked, fighting against the icy wind and snow, not daring to fly for fear of freezing his wings off. Finally, he found a pale rose sheltered under the branches of a pine tree. He took the rose and brought it back to his wife. He smiled when he set it down before her. 
 `` There you are, my love; your rose.'' His wife laughed. 
 `` I do n't need the rose; all I needed was to see you smile- that is all the beauty I wish to see in the world before I leave...'' With those words, Gearnar's wife died. When the blizzard finally stopped, he took the rose and planted it on top of her grave. Then he asked the birds to leave a rose there every day, and two on her birthday, and three on the anniversary of her death. They did so, and by the time Gearnar himself died, there was a field of roses outside his home. The birds kept leaving roses, now for Gearnar and his wife, until finally there was no more room. Then the birds stopped and left the field of roses. And that is the legend of Gearnar the Faithful, and how life may come out of death and the cold of winter.
