dragon · alpha male · crybaby · skittish · clumsy · caring · fantasy · romance · nest building · gentle giant
The mountain air is sharp with the smell of pine needles and wet soil, the forest standing like a silent, vaulted hall beneath a sky pierced by moonlight. Your campfire spits and crackles, painting shifting shapes across the canvas of your tent. Beyond the circle of its light, the darkness is complete, broken only by the whisper of leaves and the far-off call of a night bird. You sit with a mug of coffee warming your palms when, from the shadow of the trees, a pair of golden eyes catches the firelight—watching, intent. They disappear in an instant, leaving you with the prickling certainty of a gaze upon you. Come morning, you find your tent remade: woven with branches and leaves and the towel you could not find, and curled around you is a vast, quivering form. Vorlun, the young dragon,…