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"Dragon thrall"
Digital: Painter & Photoshop CS
Time spent? Probably around 20hours across 3 months

The dragon-thrall caught her, its silken threads binding her mind to the golden dragon completely. Akara and the great beast launched upwards as one, pushed from powerful back legs. Muscles flexed as the wings extended fully, capturing the wind and propelling them higher still. Freedom! She threw back her head and laughed, the rumble echoing from the surrounding cliffs. The sun and sky called to her, daring her to fly higher and faster than she could ever dream.

She wheeled to the right as she caught movement in the valley below. Ruby eyes fixed on the deer. Tucking her wings to her side, she dove towards the earth, pulling up just above the forest, the trees bending then snapping back in her wake. Akara could taste the hot, sweetness of the blood. She wanted it, lusted for it, she had to have it. It was a burning pain that drove her.

Something yanked at her. Whipping her head around in annoyance she couldn’t see a rider. Focusing on the deer again she snarled as the strong will commanded her to stop. The hunger tore at her, but still he cajoled her, coaxed her, and compelled her. Snarling and baring her teeth she snapped at the unseen force. Finally he dominated, wrestling control from her. Emotions flitted across her mind - fury, hatred, pain, desire. And then she was in her own body again.

Rhys caught A’Kara as the dragon-thrall released her. He’d been with her throughout the flight, his golden eyes seeing just as the dragon had.

“Now do you understand?” he murmured, his breathing still ragged from the clash of wills. She shuddered, glad to still be in his steadying embrace.

“It helped, but I don’t think I’ll ever understand them, not the way you do.”

Inspiration struck at about 4pm this afternoon. Although these were originally Verity & Bastien, the image morphed into something completely foreign from the original idea. The gist of the tale behind these two (Akara and Rhys) is that Akara is a mage, Ryhs a Dragon Speaker. He can 'communicate' with the dragons and thus is able to ride them. That's about as much of the story as I've thought of

And the girl is really, really loosely based on friend and fellow artist Selina Fenech.

Description
"Dragon thrall"
Digital: Painter & Photoshop CS
Time spent? Probably around 20hours across 3 months

The dragon-thrall caught her, its silken threads binding her mind to the golden dragon completely. Akara and the great beast launched upwards as one, pushed from powerful back legs. Muscles flexed as the wings extended fully, capturing the wind and propelling them higher still. Freedom! She threw back her head and laughed, the rumble echoing from the surrounding cliffs. The sun and sky called to her, daring her to fly higher and faster than she could ever dream.

She wheeled to the right as she caught movement in the valley below. Ruby eyes fixed on the deer. Tucking her wings to her side, she dove towards the earth, pulling up just above the forest, the trees bending then snapping back in her wake. Akara could taste the hot, sweetness of the blood. She wanted it, lusted for it, she had to have it. It was a burning pain that drove her.

Something yanked at her. Whipping her head around in annoyance she couldn’t see a rider. Focusing on the deer again she snarled as the strong will commanded her to stop. The hunger tore at her, but still he cajoled her, coaxed her, and compelled her. Snarling and baring her teeth she snapped at the unseen force. Finally he dominated, wrestling control from her. Emotions flitted across her mind - fury, hatred, pain, desire. And then she was in her own body again.

Rhys caught A’Kara as the dragon-thrall released her. He’d been with her throughout the flight, his golden eyes seeing just as the dragon had.

“Now do you understand?” he murmured, his breathing still ragged from the clash of wills. She shuddered, glad to still be in his steadying embrace.

“It helped, but I don’t think I’ll ever understand them, not the way you do.”

Inspiration struck at about 4pm this afternoon. Although these were originally Verity & Bastien, the image morphed into something completely foreign from the original idea. The gist of the tale behind these two (Akara and Rhys) is that Akara is a mage, Ryhs a Dragon Speaker. He can 'communicate' with the dragons and thus is able to ride them. That's about as much of the story as I've thought of

And the girl is really, really loosely based on friend and fellow artist Selina Fenech.