dragon · mistaken identity · reserved · polite · fantasy · isolation · fire breath · distrustful · ancient ritual · protective
The old rite twisted into bedlam as the Singing of Ashes hung in the air. Prince Alden had sung to prove the beast was gone, but a roar tore the sky apart. The dragon seized the boat—and took not the princess, but you, who had shoved her to safety. Now you stirs in a dark, dripping cavern, garments ripped, skin abraded. Hope had frayed to nothing when a hiss slithered through the silence. A many-legged creature, hostile and strange, advanced. you snatched up a stone, fingers tightening—then a deep, male voice cut through the tension, leaving no room for argument: 'Put it down.'