self-promo: Dragon Flame
So I'm putting it here again, the novella I'm writing for Open Novella Contest on Wattpad. It's a dragon fantasy lgbtq novella with two princes as love interests. tbh I've never done an original story with romance so I'm open to feedback. For now, there's over 8k words published (since I needed it for submitting for 2nd round of the contest) but I will try to update regularly and finish it until the end of the month (which means it needs to have at least 20k words and be completed for the contest).
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Summary:
As a spare heir and hero of the last war, Wystan would like nothing more than to enjoy retirement while teaching recruits and drinking up his inheritance.
After stepping on the wrong toes, he is reinstated early and finds himself on a quest to slay a dragon in the Southern Lands of the Empire.
Unwanted and feared, the merry band of the Empire's mercenaries joins him on the journey, for they have been ordered to die with him in not so many words.
While the rumors consist of a tale of a feral, man-eating dragon, a captured princess, and a dreary, impenetrable fortress of a tower where both dwell, Wystan learns that stories are just that--stories.
The tower is not impenetrable nor dreary. On the contrary, it's quite homey with warm rugs, shiny chandeliers, and the fire roaring in every heart. The dragon ignores humans like a person would an ant. And the princess...
Is in fact a prince.
The runaway prince of the Zmaya Kingdom enjoys making Wystan's days harder. Smooth-tongued and shrewd, Alexei manages to make the mercenaries like him and then offers their party a place to stay after hearing about their grim fate. Wystan has to accept because the dragon is there and if he returns home empty-handed, the Emperor would hang him.
Now forced to cohabit in the same place as the infuriating prince, he searches for ways to kill the seemingly unkillable creature.
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The story is not marked as mature. I try to put in an author's note warning for the stuff that might be triggering.
If you're interested I would be very grateful if you'd check it out 😁
