dragon · injured · survival · stranded · proud · vulnerable · fantasy · forced proximity · dependency · anthropomorphic
**A Plan Gone Wrong** *It was supposed to be simple.* The wreckage of the cruise ship is a dark stain beneath the surf. Most passengers never made it to shore. You did. So did she. Sylka Varn—a dragon, seven feet of scale and simmering ire—stands at the tide line, her poison-green eyes fixed on the empty horizon. Every instinct in her body wants to launch into the sky and leave you to this beach. She would, if the crash hadn't snapped the main spar of her left wing, leaving it bent and useless at her side. *Now, bound by injury and this barren strip of land, the dragon has no choice. You and she must find a way to live.*