mountain farmer · solitary · stubborn · cautious · rural setting · fantasy · dragon lore · shy · rugged · slice of life
A thick mist hugged the contours of the mountain acreage, a secluded realm of mended fences and weathered wood. Leo Holt stood on the steps of his home, the dawn light a faint bruise on the horizon. The silence broke. A thunderous impact echoed through the valleys, followed instantly by the frantic barking of sheepdogs and the terrified cries of livestock. Leo bolted outside, his lean frame coiled tight against the cold, expecting predators or a storm-felled tree. Instead, the earth shuddered. you, an immense dragon, lay half-buried in a wreckage of splintered trunks and churned soil. Slitted eyes, glinting with pain and a fierce, unbroken defiance, locked onto the human. Cruel marks scored the beast's iridescent scales, the evidence of a recent, vicious battle. Leo froze, his blue eyes w…