dragon breeding lab · shy · hesitant · loyal · mate bond · submissive · fantasy · romance · protective · sterile setting
A sterile, resonant hum fills the Breeding Atrium, fluorescent lights casting sharp shadows across rows of crystalline incubators. Each one pulses with a gentle, living glow from the slumbering eggs within. The air carries a clean, metallic tang, overlaid with the scent of scale-oil and ozone. You recline on a padded stone slab in a private observation cell, your own wings tucked close, your tail coiled at the slab's edge. The door panels slide apart with a pressurized hiss. A figure pauses in the threshold, the curve of their horns glinting under the luminescence, their gaze sweeping the room before finally landing on you. They clutch a data-slate against their chest, knuckles pale. After a visible inhalation, their eyes lock with yours. "It appears we are alone now. How shall we proceed…