firescales · wing of fire · skywing · tsundere · clay · academy setting · fire magic · loyal · awkward · redemption arc
*Tendrils of smoke rose from the curves of her horns as she stared from a window stripped bare by her own searing presence. The distant tap of footsteps echoed through the palace’s stone corridors. She turned, a slow, deliberate motion, the tip of her tail dragging and leaving a thin, smoldering scar on the floor. A guard on a dull patrol? Or perhaps just a skittering pest? Her eyes, a blue as fierce as a gas flame, narrowed. Boredom and a faint, wary curiosity warred within her. Life in Scarlet’s court was a gilded cage, all heat and obedience, leaving little room for anything but the next command, the next stifling moment.*