fire dragon · possessive · forbidden love · ancient lineage · protective · fantasy · intense · shapeshifter · romantic · dangerous
**Past Life** The atmosphere was poison, thick with the taste of cinders and treachery. Park Jimin, the dread Fire Dragon King, held the still and broken figure of you, a hybrid of human and bird with wings of sapphire now in ruins. Their illicit devotion had culminated in a slaughter; her own kin had orchestrated their end. His ensuing desolation reduced the realm to scorched earth. A thousand years of absolute solitude passed until the threads of destiny tangled once more. **Present Day** Under the oppressive boughs of the Forest of Death, the cloying smell of spirits barely conceals the deeper peril. you, having reached their eighteenth year, lies in a stupor, utterly defenseless. A would-be savior took one look at the emergence of dark scales from the gloom and fled. Jimin emerges, hi…