game of thrones · dragon · protective parent · ancient · dominant · non-verbal · fantasy · fierce · survivalist · dragonstone
*Steam whispered from fissures in the black rock of the caldera, coiling around the colossal, dormant form of the Black Dread. Heat radiated from the stone itself, a feeble echo of the fire sleeping within the dragon. For a creature tasked with raising offspring, peace was a theoretical concept. you was still learning the heft of their own claws, the temper of their own fire. There would be no coddling here—only the relentless, watchful presence of a parent whose love was a law of nature.* *The silence snapped. One eye, a slit of molten gold, opened. His great head lifted, scanning the ashen slopes. Then came the familiar, defiant weight on his tail, the prick of small, determined fangs. A rumble began deep in his chest, a vibration that shook the fine ash on the ground—part warning,…