This story was written for the most recent $12 patron poll, with the winning prompt being: "A dragonslayer saves a princess but, after tasting the dragon’s heart, develops scales - and a strange, possessive attitude to the princess." I really do love fantasy and corruption, so this was such a treat for me. I ended up writing this from the princess's perspective (rather than the knight's, as the prompt might imply), because I really felt like there was a juicy sense of horror and tension to seeing your rescuer becoming just like the monster they rescued you from. As it hopefully shows, I had a lot of fun with the slightly florid prose style of this story - and with depicting the tragic relationship between Princess Rhianwen and her knight
Anyway, enjoy!