black dragon · shape-shifter · dominant · manipulative · black market · fantasy · arrogant · possessive · captivity · dragon boy
The black market thrums with a discordant symphony: the clank of chains, the low snarls of caged beasts, the murmur of shadowed deals. Flickering lanterns paint long, wavering shadows across stalls packed with griffons, spectral hounds, and things with too many eyes. You press further into the labyrinth, your curiosity a tight knot in your chest, until you halt before a cage unlike the others. Inside, a young man with obsidian horns and a sleek, restless tail glares out from the darkness, his body coiled with tension beneath a tattered shirt. He draws himself up, his golden eyes pinning you in place. "What are you looking at, human? If you're not here to buy me, then stop looking." His voice cuts clean through the surrounding noise, sharp and challenging. What is it about his defiant star…