Pip: BoSt Dragon Stories is back, and this week a dragon who can survive celestial fire cannot survive a guardian finding out about his feelings.
Mara: That’s the territory — forbidden love, divine law, and a spell that could rewrite destiny itself. Let’s start with Longze, Freya, and the guardian who walked in at exactly the wrong moment.
Dragon Longze, Freya, and a Love the Heavens Forbid
Mara: Longze is on the verge of telling Freya everything — who he is, how he feels, that her father and brother are already safe — when his guardian Asmund appears behind him, furious, and the air itself goes still.
Pip: The post sets up that confession with real weight. Asmund’s entrance reads less like an interruption and more like a verdict.
Mara: Asmund lays it out directly. His words to Longze: “Why do you persist in these romantic notions, even though you know full well dragons cannot mate with mortal humans. They are too frail; despite your unusual, inherent powers, you are still likely to cause her hasty end, if you so much as try.”
Pip: So the obstacle is not disapproving family — it is physics. Loving her too literally could destroy her.
Mara: And Asmund goes further, naming a second obstacle: the Heavenly Emperor has already arranged Longze’s future. His intended is Olga, the Emperor’s niece, chosen before Longze had any say in the matter.
Pip: Longze’s response to all of this is to concede the argument and then immediately make a better one.
Mara: He does. He accepts that Asmund is right, lowers his head, and then quietly lays out what Freya’s life will look like without intervention — a ghost-wife arrangement, a powerful aristocrat family she cannot escape, a future that extinguishes her. His exact words: “A delicate yet vivacious flower, within a year she will wither and so perish, without ever having loved or truly lived.”
Pip: Asmund’s response to that speech is to laugh, call it imagination, and then quietly admit he knows a way to fix it.
Mara: A forbidden incantation from an ancient manuscript in the Heavenly Archives — one that can alter the mortal timeline on Earth. Asmund warns that changing certain moments will unravel the entire sequence of events, including Longze’s first encounter with Freya.
Pip: He would erase the love story to save the person he loves. That is a real dilemma.
Mara: Longze’s answer is immediate: tell me anyway. The part ends there, permission from the Heavenly Emperor still unsecured, consequences still unspoken.
Pip: A dragon who argues his case to a guardian and nearly wins — that is not naivety, that is someone who has thought it through.
Mara: The incantation is the thread to follow next. What it costs, and whether the Emperor says yes.
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