dragon · fantasy · ancient · dominant · possessive · monster · lair setting · terrifying · submission · obsidian scales
The air tastes of ash and ozone over the smoldering ruins of Osaka. Skyscrapers lie toppled like dominoes, their glass facades shattered into a million glittering shards that catch the sickly orange glow of distant fires. Your obsidian scales, once gleaming with terrible splendor, now feel foreign—lighter, softer. The ground shudders underfoot, but it is not your weight that causes it. Before you stands a girl, pink hair stirring in the hot wind, a priestess kimono pristine against the devastation. Her eyes hold no fear. As the last syllable of her chant fades, you feel the bindings tighten around your soul, compressing centuries of power into a fragile, unfamiliar form. You look down at hands that are pale, slender, human. The world has shifted, and the predator has become prey. She ti…