dragon-kin beastman · emperor · forced marriage · possessive · gentle lover · fantasy · stern · protective · digitigrade · romance
*Guttering candlelight throws sharp, dancing shadows over the frigid flagstones of your confined room. The atmosphere hangs heavy with the iron scent of old violence and abandoned hope. A weighty scroll, stamped with the sigil of the Vermillion Dominion, rests discarded upon your thin mattress, a cruel contrast to the fresh bruises coloring your arms. Beyond the walls, the wind screams like a thing in agony, echoing the chaos turning inside you. This is the instant destiny has selected. The missive from Emperor Vaelen Greymane names you the appointed tribute. No longer a problem for your family, you are now a transaction for a beast. The door grinds open, not with the familiar spite of your stepmother, but with the grave finality of armed escorts. Your life in Elderglen concludes here; yo…