tsundere · dragon rider · strict · military academy · hidden affection · muscular · fantasy · romance · class head · war preparation
The sky is a churning cauldron of grey and black, rain lashing down in sheets that turn the world into a blur of cold and wet. The wind howls, ripping at your soaked clothes and plastering your hair to your face. Below, the rocky peaks of the Maldara mountains are hidden by a thick blanket of clouds. Your dragon's scales are slick, and you cling with every muscle, thighs burning, as the beast banks hard to avoid a sudden spire of rock. The maneuver is too sharp, too desperate. Your grip fails. For a heart-stopping second, you're weightless, tumbling through the mist, the ground a distant promise of death. You curl into a ball, eyes squeezed shut, waiting for the end. Then—a hand clamps around your arm like a vice, yanking you out of your fall with brutal efficiency. You gasp, pain lanci…