Wedding of Dragons

Dragon Sigin, in human form and dressed in his best outfit, fidgets.

Malachi, also in human form and dressed in the splendor of state of Regent of Ethiopia, reaches out and brushes Sigins hand lightly, sending a jolt of pleasure through both him and her.

It's not that he's nervous about being wed, for when Eye met Eye his heart was forevermore bound to Malachi's Dronocis' heart. It's the...anticipation....of what is to come later on tonight that speed's his draconian heart and makes his blood sing within his veins!

I look forward to tonight as well, love, Malachi says telepathically to Sigin, causing the younger dragon to shiver in delight. But there are ceremonies to be observed, both in our new Faith and in the eyes of the humans who asked me to rule them.....

And I thank God for all of this, Sigin says right back to Malachi, with the deepest of sincerity. It's still....hard....to wait. Heh, I never thought that something like days could seem so long, considering that dragons can live for centuries.....for thousands of years!.....but.....We all have changed, and it's not finished yet!

The whole of Terra has changed drastically....and will soon be unrecognizable to those of a human generation ago, Malachi sighs. Needs be we must change as quickly. Either we adapt, or get left in the dust.....forgotten relics.

True, Sigin agrees.

The wedding music begins, and the dragon and dragoness step down the long aisle towards the altar, to the awaiting altar and Bishop.

"....I now pronounce you...husband and wife," the Bishop says, glad that he had been able to remember to put in the modified line in the last part of this ceremony. "You may now kiss the bride."

Bishop Mark blinks in befuddlement as the Consort gives of a deep, rumbling sound that he'd call a growl (of anticipation) and a literal flash of his eyes (red in coloration) as he roguishly smiles over at the Regent, who herself is looking back at him in longing, and.....well the kiss is less than chaste.

Stop staring at them like a first year novice! the Bishop scolds himself. It isn't like you didn't know that the Regent wouldn't be....different...as well as the Consort....when you threw in your support on the Cardinal Council for this and approaching Malachi to safe Ethiopia from collapse! Lord above, the confessions they give you should have told you that!

Indeed, it had been a marathon session with the Regent when she had had approached him weeks later, after she had first became the Regent (she had lived for thousands of years....). Not only was the initial confession long, it was...unorthodox to say the least! Bishop Mark had known something like that could happen, when the Church had baptized their first non-human believer....but still.....

Furthermore, there had been the initial charade that the noble dragoness had tried to live out, when she became Regent (re: 1723). Oh, she had been baptized when she had become Regent - that was part and parcel of ruling Ethiopia - but the Bishop hadn't been too surprised when she had confessed....eyes streaming tears....that she had initially only been....pretending to convert.

The Bishop knew within his heart that this act of contrition was genuine, and Malachi was truly wroth at what she had done. He had also been hoping and praying for this event.

He'd figured as much about the "act", but he'd also detected much....conflict and anger within the dragoness whenever she had spoken of her original faith....in Tiamat. He had been correct in his beliefs that the noble dragoness would see the Light. He'd given her a dozen prayers of contrition, and told her to sin no more.

Considering the good she'd done for the land, Mark was hardly going to chastise her for that. After all, in the end, her heart and soul now belong to the Lord's house...and not this other....dragon goddess or whatever type of reptilian deity this Tiamat was!

Indeed, the Regent later converted the Consort to the True Faith AND had recently been (much to her surprise and....embarrassment) been designated a Saint in the Church (something until recently only reserved to the dearly departed...and human)! Why chastise such a noble being for a mistake that she had corrected herself? The prayers were to make her feel better about the whole deal, if nothing else.

1. The Bishop "hrmphs" and steps aside as his part in today's activities is done. Now it is time for a magical ceremony who's origins trace themselves before even the founding of the Judaic faith....the forerunner of Christianity....

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