awesome read i thoroughly enjoyed reading this and i can't wait to see more of your writing!

Thank you! Did you also check the Addendum? (Just for a bit of backgrounds) Feel free to share any thought, positive or negative, what do you think of the characters, reactions, I am quite interested in what sort of thought this evokes. I might later add some sort of continuation to this, exploring the conclusion a bit more thoroughly (probably mature). Otherwise you may poke around in my gallery, there are quite a few stories there covering dragons of a variety of themes.

i really liked the thoughts of the main character on the days leading up to the end of his plan as well as his thoughts during it. I could almost imagine myself in that situation. Also i have never read a story in a journal format and was quite skeptical at first but i think it made it all the better. Also an important detail is that my memory is very poor so i might be forgetting some other honorable mentions.

The journal to some degree is a first for me, experimenting with the format. It is particularly important to get properly in-character for this to work, to see the world and the planned story arch through his eyes, and only his. Then of course to convey it with his words, how he sees it. The main difficulty is, I think, designing the arch so this works, that it can be conveyed proper by one person's perspective.

I like this approach (I use it, just not in this journal format), I think it can get the reader really involved as there are no side tracks, switching between scenes, elaborate expositions, only that single trail of thought. If it is done properly, it may feel as if you, yourself are there, living it through.

Anyway, thanks much for the feedback!

An entertaining and well written story. i believe it shows very realistically how something like a dragon could be 'tamed'. The only thing that didn't seem very believable was that, other than the interest in using it as a weapon in war, the king wouldn't have confiscated or forced the dragon's 'owner' to sell him such an extraordinary beast which would certainly quite a status symbol to own. I thought the 'military applications' may have been dismissed too quickly as well. In medieval times on of the most popular Sports of the ruling class was falconry, and this creature seems more intelligent than any bird. Getting his weight down to where he is comfortable to fly again, seems plausible, and doubt he would fly away at this point. If the dragon could be trained as well as a falcon, I cuold imagine even if it did no more than fly towards the enemy cavalry, staying well out of arrow range as it understands, it wold set them to panic, whereas his own cavalry might ignore it after being exposed to it many times without it hurting them. And when large enough to carry a human, who wouldn't want to fly on a dragon? You could certainly expand a bit more on this story. Maybe taming the female the same way and if she nest there, the hatchlings being exposed to human contact from their first moments in life. Thanks for sharing!

Wow, thank you! I thought it wouldn't sit this well with you, given you prefer dragons who are "just a little bit" more assertive in their ways! The points you raise are fair here, and all I can say, you might indeed get some stories which fit better your tastes later on, exploring this setting further (I am already in the process of writing one actually).

As for the military applications, imagining yourself in the place of the Major General there, right in that scene, eh, wouldn't your most immediate reaction be something alike? (I purposely ended this story exactly here, if you looked in the Addendum, you should see why - well, the King and his possible demands may also be part of that "precarious situation". There was a very good reason I purposely arranged so the rumors reached them by this story's conclusion)

Ooh fun

Thank you :) No escape for that dragon, dragged down by his hefty belly! ;)