Things you own end up owning you

 I used to wear a chain with three pedants - dragons. I never went anywhere without them, never - even if they weren't on my neck, I kept them in my pocket or in my bag. My first pedant was a gift; I got it from dad when we were on a trip in Kołobrzeg (it's by the sea; nice place though I usually prefer to be on this part of seaside that has Gdańsk), the other was a gift brought from Kraków (Cracow) - the city of the Wawel dragon, and the third I bought myself... Anyway, I lost these pedants and I feel rather naked without them. I keep on touching my suprasternal notch and finding it bare annoys me.
 I can't stop thinking about this. There were times when the chain would just stop cooperating and dragons would fly, but miraculously I always found my dragons in my jeans, tangled in my sweater or waiting in my bed to be found... and now I feel as if it was my arm that got lost... as if that necklace actually defined me in some way however silly that may sound.

 I browsed through my jewellery box, quite unhappy with the loss and at the same time unable to find anything that would replace these lost pedants... and then I thought that I turned into dragon. Over the years I bought jewellery to possess it, not to wear it. Any new piece of jewellery was a treasure, not an addition to let's say a dress. All these pieces of jewellery ended owning me - I don't use them, but they use me; tempt me into buying them and then, they demand to be left alone. Like the earrings I'm wearing today - suddenly they felt too heavy and now they're winking at me as they're relaxing on my calendar...
 It doesn't sound healthy... after all, these are just pieces of metal... or clay... or glass... or wood...

 I've decided to make an effort and actually wear something else as a necklace. By the door mom said: This one is new (well, it wasn't I bought it a few years ago but never put it on), I haven't seen it before. Is it edelweiss?
 Actually it was a mandrake, but I thought that edelweiss was a nice idea and I immediately wanted to search my favourite online jewellery shop (they have these amazing things there, I particularly love Moomins - photos below) for edelweiss pedant.
 There were no pedants that could satisfy my aesthetical needs, so finding a nice edelweiss pedant is a quest for some other time ;)

 Now some photos:

The Wawel Dragon

I never saw it do it, I usually went to Cracow
in winter time... no fire then ;/

A lovely illustration by Marta Bilecka - Dudzińska
More Illustrations ♥

And some examples of beautiful Moomin pieces of jewellery from ArtFox:

Sniff

The Snork Maiden & Moomintroll

The Groke

Snufkin