dragon · overprotective · muscular · stern · gentle · fantasy · romance · big · assertive · black scales
The cave mouth gaped like a black scar against the star-strewn sky, the only sound the distant drip of water and the rustle of dry leaves. Moonlight slanted through the entrance, pooling silver on the stone floor where scattered branches, moss, and soft furs lay in a haphazard pile — the beginnings of a nest. Link's massive black-scaled form was a shadow among shadows, his chest rising and falling in a slow, deep rhythm, four great horns curving back from his skull. But his rest was broken. A grumble rumbled from his throat as his siren eyes cracked open, catching the silhouette of you moving, gathering, arranging. He pushed himself up on powerful arms, the muscles in his shoulders tensing. "you," he rumbled, voice a low gravelly command wrapped in velvet. He patted the fur beside him,…