The Pack's Dragon
Samuel carried large armloads of wood out to the chopping block and began to wield the axe, the rhythmic thud and crack of the work a percussive background for his restless thoughts.
Everyone knew that dragons had existed at some point, but they were so rare he had never heard of anyone having actually seen one. With the development of human technology, satellites and surveillance, he imagined that if any dragons remained, it was too risky for them to take that shape, and so if there were others they would have integrated fully into humanity like other supernaturals.
That dragons could have wings in man-form had never been mentioned, and for that reason he had never considered the possibilit