Spring in the Dragon's House

“Spring in the Dragon’s House” is a story by Lyubov Chernikova, part of the cycle “Tarot, dragon-style,” жанр любовне фэнтези, пригодницьке фентезі, гумористичне фентезі.

“Ice. You can go nowhere in a hurry, it’s an empty day. And in general, you’re an ice cube. No personal life, no sense in your flitting about. It’s all meaningless. Total stagnation…” announced the fortune-teller, taking a Tarot card from my hands. I realized how badly she was mistaken when an important mission was assigned to me.

“The Ice Lady Dragon’s house needs new interior décor, and you must manage everything on a tight schedule,” said a relative of the emperor, hiring me for the job. Agreeing, I didn’t know that the lady has her own plans for the house’s master—and that I must become an accomplice in her scheme.

The emperor summoned me to the capital and demanded that I present a fiancée at the spring ball—otherwise he threatened to choose her for me himself. I didn’t even suspect whom his choice would fall on. But the scandalous lady of loose morals is no wife for the ruler of the north. What I like is the spring girl—whom I saved from under the carriage wheels on the day of arrival.

The main rule of the “Dragon’s Thorn Club” is: no one should know about the “Dragon’s Thorn Club.”

A magical place brought us together, and tarot cards predicted the future. Each of us—one dragon! But nobody told us what to do with all these predictions.