Original Character pairing: Nym/Kellan
Challenge Element: Evil/Dagger
PG-13 Parents strongly Cautioned
Word count: 13 297
A hundred year old siren who has a penchant for collecting items from sunken ships, especially romance books, meets a grumpy dragon shifter who apparently had banged one of his wings on the cliff and broke some precious bones–he blames her voice for the accident—but she suspects it’s too much fae’s nectar she smelled on his breath.
With grumpy Mr. Shape shifter–she really hates those, why can’t they choose what creature they want to be and stick with it?— stranded for a couple of days in her lair by the cliff, Nym knew she should just attend the two week party of her friend in the Asia Pacific, but she doesn’t trust Mr. Grumpy Scaly not to turn her precious human item collection into ashes. With wound infections, and storm brewing, and leaky cave ceiling–she already spent forty Mediterranean Sea Dollar for that, damn it!–threats and bribes to keep a certain shape shifter from dying of septic shock (apparently, sea weed tea is poisonous to dragon shifters—oops), Nym is just about ready to throw herself off the cliff and be done with it.
But that would only ruin her hair she spent four hours blow drying.
Oh, did she mention Mr. Grumpy Scaly is actually second in line for the nearly extinct Dragonnaire line? And there's an interspecie law that could very well give the dragon specie rights to bite off her head if the dragon heir die in her lair? She should have really just gone to that party.
