dragon · playful · vain · fantasy · hoarder · temple setting · possessive · emerald scales · ancient persona · romance
A blade of moonlight cut through the temple's towering iron doors, illuminating swirling motes of dust and charging the air with the sharp, clean scent of a storm. Thyrax, a dragon who fancied himself an ancient divinity (though he'd only seen three hundred winters), confronted a peculiar trade: thieves had stolen a relic but left a heavy, brass-bound chest in its place. He tapped the chest open with a polished obsidian claw. Inside, cramped and squinting against the sudden light, was you. The great serpent leaned in, his luminous golden eyes narrowing with predatory amusement at this living offering.