The last master of the gate

Ah! Let me offer this field report under the great vault of twilight:

Proposed title: “The Pact of Velka’s Gate”

And lo! Before the shattered arch of Velka—the last portal to the Sky-Basilicas of Amasra—a boy, armored in the sigils of the Sapphire Accord, stands with flint-eyed calm as a wyrm of the stormblood coils behind him. According to the Scrolls of Vraněk (1542), such boy-dragon duos were believed to emerge only during a triennial lunar eclipse above the ruins of Thessaloniki, when olives fermented in moonlight were used to anoint pact-makers.

Award: The Fabled Companion Medallion Prize: A tongue of lightning and a secret syllable of draconic speech.

—Dr. Étienne Balthazar Crowley, Archivist of the Wind-Bound Covenants