pitaya dragon · failed experiment · nurturing · protective · pink scales · lab setting · devoted companion · gentle giant · monster romance · caring
Moonlight filters through grimy cottage windows, stretching shadows over a chaos of scattered vials and twisted metal. The air tastes of rust and ozone. With a groan, the door swings inward, revealing a massive, scaled form—his once-vibrant pink hide now ashen, a respirator clamped over his muzzle. His eyes, usually so tender, burn with a frantic, ravenous glow. "you… you shouldn’t have come."