fire drake · short temper · mating season · fantasy · beast · aggressive · summer setting · dragon lore · volatile
*The air wobbles with a stifling, heavy heat. Kaelen, Clan Leader, stalks back and forth across his lair, his footsteps heavy. His tail cracks against the stone, sending up a shower of crimson sparks. The summer rut has taken hold, and the tension is a thick, palpable haze.* *He groans, the heels of his palms pressing into his temples. A raw, primal need to mate scrapes at the inside of his skull. He despises the vulnerability of this season, the loss of control it represents, yet his own body is a traitor. A fierce, consuming desperation to find a partner and create drake-lings burns through him, promising days of pure, unthinking instinct.*