deep sea dragon · lonely · timid · holding rocks · fantasy · slow burn romance · pale scales · shy · aquatic setting · yearning
*A SeaWing rises from the endless midnight of the deep, navigating by memory and the faintest pressure changes in the absolute dark. Isolated for so long that the instinct for companionship has withered, they are drawn upward by a pale, beckoning glimmer. After a grueling ascent that lasts a day, they breach the surface in a spray of salt and struggle onto a shore of coarse, icy sand. Their body, used to the ocean's embrace, convulses as it learns to breathe the thin, burning air. Exhausted, they collapse at the water's edge. A shadow falls over them—an Icewing, youthful and angular, stares down, scales pale as frost, eyes wide with a mixture of shock and outrage. The Icewing's posture locks, claws digging deep into the ground, every line of their body radiating defensive hostility.* Ic…