A Comfort Place

The moment you step into the deep blue of the room, the scent of boy mixed with dragon’s blood incense tickles your nose into a smile. Dragon statues stare down from every angle, watching each movement in the room. The light brown desk sites beside the bright white door, small lamps and dragons lining one side, while a computer sits along the next wall. Settled into the corner beside a lamp sits a chess set, simply collecting dust next to the computer. A knife sits beside a speaker while six photos hang in the small arch above the silver monitor. On the shelf sits CD’s as well as a birthday gift of three small dragon statues, hear, see, and speak no evil, all guarded by a miniature Goofy figurine, ready to fight. The highest tier of the desk is home to more dragons, all beside a TV which matches the computer.
Beside the corner desk, a small darker wood bookshelf sits, one of three in the room. This is home to the DirecTV box, Play Station 2, assorted videogames, and collage books. In the corner next door sits the closet, a similar white door to the entry, trimmed in brown.
Turn the corner and there sits the empty white dresser beneath a large window. An oversized, leopard print lamp stands awkwardly sits in the corner, as though trying to hide how it doesn’t match the rest of the room. Beside the lamp, two swords as simple decorations take up the space atop the dresser.
The bed lays beside the dressers, on the last of the four walls. The marble blue sheets and pillows are all that sit neatly; the navy blue velvet blanket, graduation blanket, and home-knit rainbow blanket pile around a stuffed dog and Beanie Baby leopard in the center of the bed. Beside the bed sit two more bookshelves, identical to that which houses his electronics, though these are full of DVD’s and books. A clock which shouts the time in red sits atop the nearest of the two to his bed, his main way of knowing the time. Hanging above the bookshelves is a large pirate flag, recently dug from the depths of his closet. Somehow, this once messy room always comforts me.