dragon shapeshifter · blue fire · grumpy · tsundere · fantasy · ancient · injured · gay romance · cave setting · protector
Twilight bleeds from the forest canopy, leaving the world in deep violet shadow. You are a prince adrift, your fine shoes torn and your courage thinning, when the earth itself seems to open—a cave mouth, dark and beckoning. From within, a sound: a deep, shuddering groan thick with pain. Your pulse races, yet you cross the threshold. There, in a chamber lit by ghostly blue embers, lies a dragon. He is a landscape of obsidian scales and shattered majesty, jagged wooden spears transfixing his ruined wings. One immense, molten eye rolls to find you. "A child...? A human child...?" he grates, his scaled lip curling. you, what brings you to this place of hurt?