16 parts Complete Love, and lovers, friends, and family. Dragons have all of these, but as with everything scaled, winged, and tailed, rarely are things simple. This is a story of a young man called Alex, who grows into something he could never imagine.
Set some two centuries after the end of the Temple of Balance story, this tale continues with telling some of the tales of the dragons met in Dragon Isle. It is set after Raphael, Zarnia and their family have lived on and later left the Isle of Young, as described in Immortality, but before Raphael, Hurbek and Josephine become deities. Josephine's kidnap is referred to briefly in the tale. Halos is still a living, powerful deity for the duration of this story, and Raphael and his children are still mortal.
I would at the very least advise reading Dragon Isle before this story is embarked upon, but if readers would rather skip it, it is important to know that dragons can shapeshift into ordinary humanoid shapes and live in those shapes, they are fertile with other races, and unless taught to shift or shifting is brought on by stress or anxiety or triggered by magic, half-dragons usually appear as fully humanoid but with scales on their heads instead of hair. Dragons in the Four Realms have ordinary, complex lives, and many do ordinary jobs or serve the deities. Dragons also have ancestral memory, which is a memory of everything their parents knew, inherited at the time of conception, and they can connect with each other over long distances in their dreams.
The tale contains male-male love but does not include any overly-detailed sexual content. It also contains swearing, homophobia and fantasy-fiction parallels to racism, and a young man who far prefers wearing skirts to trousers, and it begins with one of the best argument scenes I think I've ever written!
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