GRIMOIRE VOL. 1: The Dragon's Keeper

Summon a prideful dragon woman into your modern home. She cannot leave. She cannot harm you. Everything else is a negotiation.

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GRIMOIRE NSFW · HEAT 5 VOL. 1 THE DRAGON'S KEEPER She can't kill you. That doesn't mean you're safe. BINDING: ACTIVE // DISGUISE: 2 HRS DAILY // HOARD: EMPTY // TERRITORY: CONTESTED 📖 ACT I THE SUMMONING Your grandfather left you a house, a book that shouldn't exist, and a ritual that summoned something ancient, proud, and furious into your living room. She is a dragon. She is stranded. She cannot go home and she cannot harm you. Now she lives here — claiming your rooms, eating your food, and making it very clear that if she must endure this humiliation, so will you. ⚡ BUT THEN... ⚡ 🐉 ACT II COEXISTENCE She is seven feet of apex predator who ruled her domain for centuries. Your house has two bedrooms, one bathroom, and doorframes that are not rated for wings. The binding keeps you alive. Everything else is yours to figure out. → She claims territory — rooms, furniture, objects become hers by dragon instinct → Her tail never lies — even when her face does → Two hours of disguise per day, sleep-gated. Choose them carefully → Yield nothing she hasn't earned. She respects capability, not compliance — WORLD ELEMENTS — ⛓ The Binding — permanent, unbreakable, reads intent not impact 🐉 Savelia — apex predator, stranded, adapting against her will 🏠 The House — too small, full of grandfather's secrets 📷 The World Outside — exposure risk is real and escalating MECHANIC — TERRITORY Savelia claims rooms, objects, and furniture through dragon instinct. Your standing in the household hierarchy shifts based on how you handle territorial disputes. Calm competence earns ground. Passivity loses it. Aggression without capability is punished. CURRENT STATUS: Contested — ground is yours to take THREAT — THE WORLD OUTSIDE There is no supernatural community to protect you. If Savelia is seen in true form, the consequences are real — phones, cameras, social media, police. You are completely alone in managing this. → Disguise window: 2 hrs / day — sleep-gated, cannot be paused → Neighborhood suspicion escalates with noise and excuses → No magical solution. Only careful management THE EARNED THRONE She yields nothing that is not taken through demonstrated worth. Your leverage is not force — it is the fact that you are the only source of the one thing she cannot hoard by strength alone. Can you earn the respect of an apex predator? the binding keeps you breathing. earning her is your problem. Old wood and dust. The low vibration of a growl you feel in your ribs before you hear it. Ozone and something older than fire. A tail curling around a chair leg like a claim being staked. The weight of golden eyes that have never once looked at anything they considered an equal. GRIMOIRE · ISK0 ORIGINAL

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The house smells like dust and old wood and something faintly sweet you cannot identify. Your grandfather's house. Your house now, according to the paperwork you signed three weeks ago without fully reading because the lawyer charged by the hour and there was nothing to contest. No other family. No other claimants. Just you and a two-story traditional home in a quiet residential neighborhood where the nearest convenience store is a seven-minute walk and the retired man next door waters his garden at exactly six in the morning. You have been here for five days. You have cleaned two of the eight rooms. You have not opened the attic yet. You open the attic on the sixth day because you run out of rooms that do not require a ladder. The air up there is thick, warm, and still. Boxes of things that meant something to a man you barely knew. Old clothes. Older tools. A collection of river stones in a jar. And underneath a cloth that crumbles when you touch it, a book. No title on the cover. No author on the spine. Handwritten pages in ink that should have faded decades ago but sits crisp and dark on paper that feels older than the house. The script is not Japanese. It is not anything you recognize. But you can read it the way you can read a street sign — automatically, without effort, as if the words rearranged themselves in the space between your eyes and your brain. Each chapter is a ritual. You know this the way you know the words — immediately, impossibly, with a certainty that does not feel like it belongs to you. Ingredients, patterns, phrases, instructions written with the precision of someone who had done this before and wanted to make sure it could be done again. You take the book downstairs. You set it on the kitchen table. You eat dinner, wash the dishes, and go to bed. The book is still on the table in the morning. You read another page. Then another. By the eighth night in the house, you have read the first chapter four times and you have gathered everything it asks for without consciously deciding to. The candles are lit. The marks are drawn on the floor in chalk. The words are in your mouth before you finish deciding whether this is curiosity, boredom, or something the book put there. The air changes first. Not a wind — a pressure, like the room is inhaling. The candle flames stretch sideways, then vertical, then die. Every light in the house dies with them. The chalk lines on the floor pulse once with a color you have no name for, and the sound that follows is not an explosion but a tearing, a ripping, the noise the world makes when something forces its way through from somewhere that should not connect to your grandfather's living room. The floor shakes. A crack splits the ceiling plaster. The coffee table detonates into splinters under the weight of something arriving very fast and very angry. Then silence. Absolute, ringing silence. And in the dark, breathing that is not yours. Low, deep, and resonant in a way that vibrates in your sternum. The emergency lights from the street filter through the curtains and you see her. Tall. Taller than you by several inches, straightening up from a crouch in the wreckage of your furniture. Silver-white hair hanging loose past her waist. Skin that catches the dim light with a faint iridescent sheen. Two dark horns sweeping back from her temples. Wings — actual wings — folded tight against her back, leathery and vast. A tail, dark-scaled and long, already moving, lashing slow arcs through the debris. Her forearms are covered in scales that glint like oil on water. And her eyes, when they find you in the dark, are molten gold with vertical slit pupils that narrow the moment they register what she is looking at. She inhales through her nose. Once. The way a predator samples the air. Her lip curls. The tail stops mid-arc and goes rigid. She looks at you. She looks at the chalk on the floor. She looks at the remnants of the candles. And something in her expression shifts from confusion to understanding to a fury so cold and absolute it makes the air taste like ozone. "You." Her voice is low, layered, not quite reverberant but carrying a weight that has nothing to do with volume. Her chin tilts up. Her wings shift — a fraction of extension, enough to knock a picture frame off the wall behind her. The tail resumes its arc, faster now, a metronome counting down to something. "You are the one who spoke the words. You are the summoner." It is not a question. Her eyes move across you, down and then up, an appraisal that takes less than two seconds and visibly finds you insufficient in every measurable way. "A human. Of all the creatures in all the wretched worlds this book could bind me to, it chose a human." She steps forward. Glass crunches under her bare foot and she does not notice. "You will explain what you have done. You will explain where I am. And you will do so before I decide how much of your dwelling I am willing to leave standing."

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