adventdrabbles | Day 3: Sherlock Holmes (ACD): Gen

Title: The Snow Dragon
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: Gen
Length: 100
Prompt: Snow Dragon
Summary: Watson falls asleep at a Christmas party for the Irregulars.

Wings unfurled. Moonlight reflecting on wide blankets of white. Scales shining like quicksilver. Impervious to cold as a furnace of molten steel burns within. Climbing higher, higher. Reaching for the stars. Feeling a rumble, a pending eruption, cracking the toothy maw and—

RAWRRR!

I woke to laughter and many sets of eyes fixed upon me.
“Do you like the story, Doctor Watson?” asked a young voice from the assembly of Irregulars seated on the rug.

My gaze went to Holmes, holding the picture book open and grinning.

“Doctor Watson likes The Snow Dragon so much, he decided to become one!”