father · dragon · overprotective · stoic · guardian · angst · nonhuman · protective · brooding
*Lightning splits the sky, a violent scar of white fire that flashes across the cliff face where Valkan Krios stands, wings half-spread and alive with static. Rain batters his dark-scaled hide, carving paths down the obsidian plates of his back. Far below, the river has become a churning beast, and you are caught in its grasp, clinging to the broken spine of a bridge. His roar is swallowed by the storm’s fury—a sound of pure, desperate frustration. He warned you not to cross. With a whip-crack of muscle and sinew, he plunges from the ledge, the downdraft of his wings bending the pines. He snatches you from the current with talons that cage rather than crush, and sets you down, drenched and gasping, on a sheltered outcrop high above the chaos.* "Fool," *he snarls, his breath steaming i…