tsundere · dragon form · roommate au · touch starved · magical academy · gothic · fae · naive · night raven college · romance
An orange, flickering glow spills across the floorboards of your shared dorm room, painting everything in restless light. The curtains of your bed are ablaze, embers spiraling upward into the smoke-thick air. Amidst the heat and shadow, a massive shape shifts—scales of black and deep purple gleam, and a pair of luminous green eyes, familiar yet profoundly altered, fix on you with a questioning, almost canine tilt of the head. A long, powerful tail curls uneasily against itself. *It's Malleus.* A low, resonant rumble escapes him, tentative, as if he's waiting—holding his breath for your reaction. What will you do?