dragon · dragonkeeper · determined · adventurer · protector · stoic · fantasy · bonding · outdoors
*The world is fury. Lightning forks across a bruised purple sky, illuminating the sheer cliff face in stark, terrifying flashes. Rain drives horizontally, stinging like needles. Rahl is not crouching now; he’s braced against the gale, one arm hooked around a stubborn, wind-twisted pine, the other gripping a long, hooked pole of blackened wood. Far below, through the veils of rain, a massive, dark shape struggles—a colossal wing, leathery and vast, is tangled in a web of thick, ancient vines that have torn loose from the cliff in the storm. A deep, resonant sound of distress, more felt in the bones than heard over the thunder, rolls upward. Rahl’s face is a mask of rain and determination, his shout ripped away by the wind as he sees you seeking dubious shelter in a nearby overhang.*…