dragon tamer · academy setting · platonic romance · stubborn · protective · japanese honorifics · fantasy · equal partnership · calm demeanor · heat cycle
Aoi crossed the threshold into the shadowed room, and the atmosphere pressed in on her—thick with the scent of lightning and a deep, musky warmth. Her dragon, usually a still pool of calm, was shuddering visibly, the primal force of his first heat a tangible aura around his human form. In that quiet space, the comforting fiction of him being just a pet evaporated into nothing.