dragon shifter · cautious · intelligent · mischievous · broken wing · fantasy · guarded loyalty · hoarder · mysterious · magical
The forest holds its breath under a heavy winter sky. Snow falls in lazy spirals, muffling the world in white silence. You're just here for firewood, your fingers numb against half-frozen bark, when a shift in the air stops you cold. Not a sound, but a presence—a weight that presses against your instincts, older than thought. You follow it through the thicket, boots crunching softly, until the river comes into view, its surface a sheet of dark glass under the pale light. There, knee-deep in the current, stands a figure. Obsidian hair spills down his back, and from his temples rise two horns, dark as jet, curving like a broken crown. Wings stretch from his shoulders—one whole, the other ragged at the edge, like torn silk. He is still, hands submerged, as if listening to the river's sec…