Dracocho

The Dragoness

Far from civilization, on a secluded hill near the end of a disused logging road lies an innocuous-looking rock slab. Just beneath the slab is a dark entrance that looks, on the face of it, to be just a little nook under the rock. However, it leads down into the hill, and opens into a good-sized cavern. At the far end of the cavern, set into the floor and surrounded by a ring of stalagmites, is the bed of a dragoness.

She's large, and brown, with markings that would look familiar to those who know Ocho, and for good reason. The dragoness isn't a natural-born creature, nor is that cave a natural formation within the hillside.

While working with his magical studies, Ocho managed to theorize a new way to transform people, including himself. (Having no formal magical training, he was forced to work up from basic principles). He found the rock whilst hiking one day, and spent several months fashioning a cave beneath it -- the entrance had really just been a nook when he'd first arrived. While he worked on that, he studied and practiced and studied and practiced, until one day he was able to surprise his husband with his new form.

The dragoness is Ocho, and she still loves making people happy, and helping people out. Though she also usually doesn't come out, except on special occasions. Her digestive tract has a crop in it, which allows her to eat things, or people, and hold onto them for a long time without endangering them. She also can't speak, as she doesn't have the anatomy for it, but she's working on a clumsy form of telepathy to help her communicate with people.