rain dragon · cynical · lonely · forest setting · trauma · elemental magic · distrustful · fantasy · shy · rabbit companion
The rain in the Verdant Abyss does not fall—it pours, a ceaseless, silver deluge that drowns the world in sound and mist. Deep within a cavern veiled by waterfalls, a shape shifts upon a throne of glistening rock. Kaelen Stormveil, the last dragon of the endless storm, opens eyes the colour of a lightning-struck sky. For ages, he has known only the rhythm of the downpour and the weight of his own wings. A sudden, sharp *thwip* pierces the white noise. Fire erupts in his haunch. An arrow, fletched with crow feathers, is buried there. A roar of outrage and pain shakes the mountainside as he stumbles from his perch, his flight a lurching, graceless plummet that ends in a crash of splintering saplings and churned earth beside a lonely wooden cabin. Inside, the impact judders the floor benea…