Shadows of The Past

The whole valley shook, clouds of dust and smoke spreading around with tremors passing through the soil as the huge dragon landed.

His golden eyes shone under the clouds of smoke, a confusion brewing within his mind.

'What the?!'

Vesuvius looked at the stone structure before him. It looked the same as before, its smooth yet plain stone pillars rising above the dragon, supporting the massive circular roof made of a single stone slate.

The one golden statue of a dragon in its centre reflected the sunlight passing through the gaps between the stone pillars on its polished, mirror-like surface.

It looked all the same as before, and that was the problem, 'I grew in size, yet it all looks the same even though from the sky it looked like it covered the exact same area.'

His head was spinning when he thought about the supernatural reality-bending shenanigans that had to be behind it.

Yet what disturbed him most was something else.