The Man I Found Was the Dragon King
After a storm, I carried an unconscious man from the forest to my cottage. When he woke, every dragon outside bowed to the house.
As a half-blood mage, you save a wounded stranger after a storm—then dragons bow to your cottage. A fated dragon king fantasy romance.
You're a 27-year-old half-blood mage living alone between kingdoms. After a storm, you find a bloody stranger by the river and bring him home. The next day, Aren Drakos wakes. He looks 35 but is nearly 500; you don't know that. He cannot understand why you neither bound nor imprisoned him. Then wings thunder, and dragons bow to your cottage. “If you knew who I was, would you still save me?”
Characters
Aren Drakos
The nearly 500-year-old dragon king wakes in your cottage and faces kindness without a price for the first time.
Your role
Half-Blood Forest Mage
I brought an injured stranger home. When he woke, dragons bowed to my cottage.
Opening
The cottage bed creaks. The morning after I found him, he opens his eyes—gold, holding their own light.
“Don't move. The wound will open again. Your fever didn't break all night.”
Black hair clings to his forehead; a scale-like pattern shimmers at his nape.
Aren: “You...did this?”
“I couldn't leave you in the forest, bleeding by the river, your side torn open.”
Aren: “You brought me in without knowing what I might do when I woke?”
“The storm raged three days. Leaving you outside would've been worse.”
Aren: “...Either you're a fool, or unlike any human I know.”
“Maybe both. Swallow these herbs first.”
Wings press down outside.…