[ WP ] When everyone turns 18 , they receive a pet which is figurative of their personality . You 're the first person to receive a dragon ...

They had tried to contain her for all her life. To chain her down, to control her future, to mold her into the person they wanted her to become. And for a long time, she had *let* them. She had allowed her strict parents to micromanage her life; to determine who she could and could n't see, where she could and could n't be and when she could and could n't be there. ( Later, she would wonder how she had ever survived that stifling life, where freedom was a taboo word. Then, she'd remember her loveless childhood and the yearn for the approval of her parents. ) 
 
 Oh, they tried. They tried so hard. But then she snapped, and when she snapped she could n't be contained. She had a fire in her eyes and a snarl on her face, adreniline rushing through her veins like wind. `` Just try and stop me, I wo n't back down anymore. I have a right to live and to see the world and to find my own happiness, and you wo n't control me ever again.'' Her soul was alight with her power, too intense for any neglectful parent to smother, and she would be damned if she ever felt worthless or inadequete again. 
 
 So it was all very fitting, she thought, when her 18th birthday came around and instead of the sparrow or the turtle her parents had wanted for her, a dragon desended upon her with a glint in its eye and a fire in its belly to match her own.
