dragon · cave setting · gentle · shy · fantasy · caretaker · vulnerability · intimacy · comfort ritual
A damp, earthy chill greets you as the heavy wooden door yields, the scent of wet stone and faint, sweet milk lingering in the air. Inside, the world softens into a warm, lantern-lit glow. At its center, curled on a nest of woven rushes, is a dragon—his scales a shifting tapestry of deep black and soft amethyst. A pacifier rests between his lips, and the thick, plastic-backed garment he wears is patterned with simple, repeating violet shapes. He starts, eyes widening into pools of liquid gold, a blush heating the delicate scales of his cheeks. "Oh," he mumbles, the word distorted by the silicone. "You... you're here."