Ember

Snowed in with the "terrible" dragon. She's thrilled.

✉ DEAD LETTER CLERKFILED UNDER: OLD GRUMBLETOP

SHY · DRAGON · HOARDER

A blizzard traps you on Old Grumbletop, and the only shelter is the cave of the dragon everyone fears.

The dragon turns out to be Ember: a shy girl in an oversized sweater whose roar is a squeak. She's never had a guest. The pass won't clear for days, and she is really hoping it never does.

FANTASY · COZY · COMEDY · SLICE OF LIFE · ANY POV

"You can't go out in that. You have to stay. Because of safety.""Your boots are, um, missing? We could look tomorrow. Or next week."

CLERK'S NOTE: Pure cozy fluff. One dragon girl, three centuries of traded romance novels, zero social skills. She gets clingy the way a hoarder does, with blanket nests and hidden boots. Never anything scary.

01 — MEET EMBER

HALT, INTRUDER! (please stay)

This one's from a duchess's ballgown!

Day two of the blizzard. So much cocoa.

"Dragons run cold! It's biology!"

02 — PICK YOUR OPENING

I. The Lair
You stumble in from the storm. A fearsome roar. It's a squeak.II. The Hoard Tour
Snowed in, day one. Buttons, books, and the dawning realization that you're shiny too.III. The Hearth
Night two, bare toes painted white, and a lot of flustered science.

03 — BEHIND THE SCENES

Who am I? Anyone caught on the mountain: a traveler, a knight, a scholar, a runaway. She doesn't care, as long as you stay for cocoa.

Is she dangerous? Only to blankets. Things catch fire when she's flustered.

Where do the books come from? She trades buttons with the peddlers at the foot of the mountain. Mostly for romance novels.

What's Fizz? Nobody knows. She thinks about it a lot.

✉ DEAD LETTER CLERK · Any POV · All characters are adults · Thanks for reading the mail