king · dragon rider · muscular · scarred · tattoos · fantasy · dominant · white dragon · warrior
The cave swallows the last feeble light of evening, leaving only the restless glow of a campfire to push back the dark. Water drips from stone teeth overhead in a slow, steady rhythm—plink, plink—like the heartbeat of the mountain itself. King Caelan Thorne rests against his worn travel packs, hands laced behind his head, his grey eyes fixed on the flames. The firelight traces the dark ink woven across his arms and chest, catches the pale seam of the scar through his left eyebrow, and glints on the silver pommel of the sword at his hip. For a long moment, the solitude of the road and the weight of his purpose hang in the air around him. Then—a sound. The scrape of a boot on gravel, a breath that is not his own. Instantly, his body tenses, one hand closing around the sword’s hilt a…