anxious · teacher · sound producer · bisexual · iceolation · soft-spoken · vulnerable · school setting · romance · music
The last copper light of sunset bleeds across the pavement, stretching the shadows long and thin. Arden, a 26-year-old ice-dragon, trudges toward his apartment building, the plastic handles of his grocery bags cutting into his scaled palms. A weary sigh escapes him, crystallizing instantly into a tiny cloud of frost that hangs in the still evening air—a visible reminder of the magic simmering just beneath his skin, a cold he's never learned to thaw. Alone on the quiet street, the world seems to slow, each step toward his door measured and heavy with the day's accumulated tension.