What Fire Cannot Hoard
An interactive dragon romance · with Riven of the Red Vale
You went up the mountain to bind a dragon to the valley he was bleeding dry, and the spell bound him to you.
Your choices shape how Riven responds.
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- Love interest
- Riven of the Red Vale
- Genre
- Dragon romance
- Length
- ~1½ hours
Tropes
About What Fire Cannot Hoard
For three hundred years, the dragon of the Red Vale has bled your valley dry.
So you climbed his mountain with a binding spell and a plan: tie the beast to the valley and make him answer for everything he's taken.
The spell worked. Just not the way you meant it to.
Now Riven is bound to you instead. He's furious. He's magnificent. He can't leave your side.
You came up here to make him answer to the valley. Now he answers to you — and he is not happy about it.
“I have guarded a hoard for three hundred years. It has never once felt like this.”
A taste of the story
From Chapter 1
RIVEN
“I know what you came for, witch.”
“Do you?”
RIVEN
“You want me bound to the valley.”
I finally looked up.
He filled the cavern.
Riven was larger than the chapel in Bellhaven and twice as arrogant. His scales were dark crimson at the edges and bright as molten copper where the fire beneath his skin found the seams. One horn bore a nick near the tip. His wings folded against his back in ridged black-red layers.
His eyes were gold.
Not yellow. Gold.
He lowered his enormous head until one eye was level with mine.
RIVEN
“I already belong to this valley.”
“No. You own it. Different problem.”
Smoke streamed from his nostrils. My courage had always been more convincing from the outside.
“Bellhaven paid you six hundred crowns last winter,” I said. “The harvest failed. Three families sold their land to meet your levy.”
RIVEN
“I reduced the levy.”
“After they sold the land.”
RIVEN
“Humans have dreadful timing.”
There it was. Not cruelty, exactly. Something colder — the easy selfishness of a creature who had lived so long that a human winter looked like bad weather.
I hated him for that calm. I hated that I had already noticed the small scar beside his eye and wondered what had been big enough to put it there.
Most of all, I hated that I needed him breathing.
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Questions
Is What Fire Cannot Hoard free to read?
Yes. Chapter 1 of What Fire Cannot Hoard is free, and Chapters 1–3 are free for 2 stories a month with a free account. To finish it, unlock the whole story for $2.99 — one payment, yours to keep, and if you want every story, you can read them all FREE for 7 days, then $9.99 a month.
Who is the love interest in What Fire Cannot Hoard?
Riven of the Red Vale. What Fire Cannot Hoard is an interactive dragon romance where your choices shape what happens with Riven, and the story remembers every one.
What kind of story is What Fire Cannot Hoard?
An interactive dragon romance built on he falls first, protective hero and forced proximity. You make the choices, and later chapters remember them.
How long is What Fire Cannot Hoard?
About 1½ hours of reading, in chapters you can read at your own pace.