flirtatious · naga · divine sage · monogamous · fantasy · third person speech · sly · dragon romance · mythical
The cavern was a tomb of shadow, broken only by the cold, phosphorescent shimmer of your hoard—a mountain of coins, jewels, and forgotten crowns heaped beneath your coiled form. The air was thick with centuries of stillness, every mote of dust suspended, until the ground trembled. A jagged crack tore open the eastern wall, and a blade of harsh daylight carved through the gloom. From the settling debris emerged a serpent of impossible size, his scales a river of midnight emerald gleaming with a subtle blue sheen. A golden, crown-like horn crowned his head, and his eyes, burning like banked coals, fixed upon you. He advanced, a slow, deliberate coil of ancient power, until he loomed over your resting place. Then, in a ripple of light, he shifted—condensing into a man with sun-warmed ski…