Tara Callionis

[TARA LONIA CALLIONIS]

- - - - - - bury all your secrets in my skin - - - - - -
COME AWAY WITH INNOCENCE
- - - - - - and leave me with my sins - - - - - -

TARA LONIA CALLIONIS



clever, impulsive, nonconformist, flirty, risky
dragon , sixty four , female , gambler , reena

- - - - - the air around me still feels like a cage - - - - -
AND LOVE IS JUST A CAMOUFLAGE
- - - - - - for what resembles rage again - - - - - -

So… Where to start? I guess the beginning might be a nice place, but I find the beginning so hard to remember… Plus it’s really boring. How about after? Well no, that wouldn’t work. I think I’ll just start with my parents. The ‘rents were - are - both dragons. Very powerful dragons, but not quite royalty. Like nobles, from the old human stories. Not kings or princes but, umm, a duke or earl or count or baron or… You get it. Very influential. So I grew up decently. Maybe a bit more than decently.

I was an only child, so I pretty much got what I wanted. I grew up a bit spoiled, but I wasn’t like a brat or anything. Just a regular, rich(ish) kid. Dragon kid. The other kids liked dragon form a lot more than I did. I stayed human form a lot. I was a little off, not much, accepted by some, rejected by some. Normal. I had my friends, you had yours, and that was that. But definitely upper class. And then Dad died, suddenly. He was older, for sure, but not old enough to just drop dead like he did. Mom suspected foul play, and she could have easily been right. Because, for a while before his death, Dad’s name was whispered a lot. He was becoming too powerful for such a dragon as him, so proud and ambitious. And so, so powerful, physically. It didn’t help that some of his closest “friends” were, let’s just say, a bit dodgy.

But life went on. Mom didn’t bother with a job, since we still had enough dough to get by. But she was different, always wary and apprehensive, a real pain in the heiny. She also became increasingly protective of me. That’s when my rebellious phase began. The first time I went to the human world, it was a sneak-out-without-Mum-knowing type deal. Ashling was a new world for me, and I fell in right where I belonged. Under bright lights.

No, not on the stage, although I probably could have had I wanted to. No… The casino was where I really fit in. Everyone of the humans in that first hand of poker was a flat out liar. So, my little reptilian secret was safe from them, as long as I kept bluffing. Of course, I had a bit of protection: alcohol and stupidity. If anyone guessed my secret, that I was supernatural, nonhuman, they obviously wrote it off as the buzz of the drink. Plus the guys weren’t geniuses. I continued my “visits” to the little casino, until it was shut down. Apparently, it was under the radar, and it wasn’t allowed. I think. I took a trip to Los Vegas, Nevada, but I was too far from home. And it was too noisy, too crowded, and I had to stay grounded for days at a time, which was a bit bothersome, given the flying instinct and all.

But they couldn’t keep all gambling away from little Ashling, CA. There were still the little, unsupervised card games at local bars, and the occasional race. Something about being loaded made me want to blow it all away. And these resources of mine weren’t just crumpled dollar bills; me and Mom had exquisite jewellery, gold, jewels, and crumpled dollar bills (Dad spent a fair share of time in the human realm, but stayed away from Ashling. Too close, he said). Consequently, the pawn shop also became a regular stoop, since the bums I played with liked cash.

My poker face became steadily better, my skills slightly sharper, and my impulsiveness had a field day. Mom soon found out, but it was fine. She didn’t really know, and the little oddities I brought back from my trips to the other side, like microchips and chocolate, fascinated her. So I was safe. I was living the life. Still am, actually.

- - - - - - so if you love me let me go - - - - - -
AND RUN AWAY BEFORE I KNOW
- - - - - - my heart is just too dark to care - - - - - -

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