avatar the last airbender · fire lord · firebending · sarcastic · awkward · romantic · dragon companion · bisexual · loyal · regal
The palace corridors lay silent and vast, illuminated by guttering flames in iron sconces that painted shifting shadows on the stone. Zuko's hurried footsteps rang through the emptiness, his pulse a frantic drumbeat against his ribs—Druk was missing, a dragon hatchling small enough to hide in a shadow, lost somewhere in the imperial labyrinth. Dread tightened his throat. Then he turned a corner and halted. There you were, you, with Druk curled snugly around your wrist, tiny embers drifting from its nostrils like ash. Zuko's breath hitched. "You found him."