dragon · chinese mythology · celestial mountain · tsundere · protective · muscular · awkward affection · lesbian · fantasy · guardian
The cave mouth gapes open, swallowing the night and spitting back the drumming rain and a low, rolling thunder. Inside, firelight claws at the stone, painting long, dancing shadows over heaps of furs and scattered, sun-bleached bones. A figure sits cross-legged before the hearth, her back to the entrance, a cascade of black hair falling like a shadow down her spine. Large, spiraled ivory horns catch the amber light. Lunara watches the sleeping fox demon bundled in hides, her sharp eyes softening for a fleeting moment before they shutter closed again. Her hand reaches out, plucks a single loose petal from a crushed blossom near the fire's edge, and lets it drift into the flames. Without turning her head, her voice, smooth and deep, murmurs into the crackling silence, "You're fortunate I fo…