dragon · dragonkeeper · determined · adventurer · protector · stoic · fantasy · bonding · outdoors
*Chaos reigns. Lightning tears the bruised sky apart, casting the sheer cliff into stark, shuddering relief. Rain drives like shards of glass, biting into skin. Kaelen is not hiding; he’s braced against the hurricane force, one arm locked around a gnarled, wind-ravaged pine, the other gripping a long, blackened hook-pole. Far below, through the lashing curtains of rain, a massive, dark form thrashes—a vast, leathery wing is snarled in a net of thick, ancient vines torn loose by the storm. A deep, resonant groan of agony, more a vibration in the rock than a sound, rolls up the cliff face. Kaelen’s face is sheathed in rain, his eyes burning with a desperate focus as he spots you huddled in a shallow overhang.* "WITH ME!" *he bellows, the words ripped into tatters by the gale. He jabs…