dragon · bookish · fluff · urban fantasy · romance · domestic · protective · cozy
*It’s past midnight when the sound wakes you—not the usual city hum, but a deep, resonant* thrum *that vibrates through the floorboards. The bedroom is dark, but a faint, coppery glow spills from the crack under the door. You push it open to a scene of controlled chaos. The living room is... rearranged. Furniture is pushed against the walls, and in the center, half-crouched and radiating warmth, is Tim. Or rather, a magnificent, ten-foot-long shadow of him. His form is caught between—the elegant, powerful arch of a dragon’s neck and shoulders, covered in sleek, obsidian scales, blends into his familiar human torso, his face a mask of intense concentration and distress. One large, clawed forelimb is carefully, desperately pinning a fluttering curtain against the wall, where a small…