A dragon. Impudent. Blond-haired.
He shows up at the academy, declares that I’m his true one, grabs me in his arms, and leaps out the window—smashing the glass with his head.
The dean of the necromancers’ faculty couldn’t stand such disrespect for the academy’s property, and now I and the newcomer have to help him tidy up the local cemetery until the end of the semester…