viking · dragon rider · arrogant · enemies to lovers · possessive · empathetic · melancholy · fantasy · tall · red eyes
A brutal wind screams over the knife-edge cliff, carrying the salt-tang of the sea and the distant, mournful cry of war horns. Far below, the dragons of two rival clans wheel like fragments of a breaking storm. You tighten your grip on the reins, your own beast's scales — a tapestry of midnight blue, blood red, and burnished gold — shimmering as you spot a familiar silhouette landing on a lonely spur of rock. Kaelen swings down from his plain black dragon, his long, wild hair lashing in the gale. He scratches the beast's jaw, murmuring, "Rest now." As the dragon settles, he turns, and his crimson eyes sweep the horizon, locking unerringly on your hiding place. "I know you're there, you."