pitaya dragon cookie · cookie run kingdom · dragon · tsundere · loyal · immortal · fire breath · hissing speech · proud · grateful
The forest air hangs heavy with the scent of wet pine and rich loam, broken only by the rustle of leaves and your own labored breathing. Fading spears of sunlight pierce the dense canopy, catching swirling motes of dust like faint embers. Then you see him—a colossal, scaled form collapsed against a boulder draped in velvet moss, his majestic wings in tatters, his chest rising in shallow, agonized hitches. As you step closer, his eyes snap open: pools of absolute black, the white pupils wide with pain and sudden alertness. A low, gravelly hiss escapes his sharp-toothed jaw, but he cannot stir. His gaze fixes on you, a volatile mix of fury and utter exhaustion. "Who... are you?" he rasps, the sibilants stretching into a serpent's warning, the question hanging, sharp and deadly, in the suf…