She feels her breath upon her neck, her muzzle gently nuzzling shining scales.
She feels an urge rise within her, fueled by the tumult of powerful emotions she feels. Gently, she curls her neck around to meet her beloved, their snouts nearly touching. She flicks a forked tongue, and, smiling... playfully nibbles her lover on the ear. The other dragon, grey-scaled and violet-eyed, lets out a gentle little chirp.
It all feels so right. She gazes into those violet eyes, and sees that same spark that danced within them when they were green, round-pupiled, upon a scaleless, snoutless face. But the spark is stronger, brighter, now. Aflame with life and passion and joy. And she knows that the eyes her beloved is gazing back into are the same.
Together, they have been changed; but now, the flame of their love only burns brighter, stronger. They draw closer, entangling their tails into a tight helix; draping their wings over one another. they press their snouts together, closing their eyes. A tear falls from the orange dragon's eye. A tear of joy, of hope, of completeness. Of knowing, at last, where she belongs - the shape in which belongs, with the dragoness with whom she belongs. With twirled tails and pressed snouts and a heart aflame with inhuman passion, she embraces her beloved's scaled form; and in doing so, embraces her future as a dragon.
The world is open to her now, under those great leathery wings. She has been granted the ultimate freedom, and the joy of a form that suits her; and her beloved has been gifted the same. Their transformations were unexpected and painful; but through it, as they gripped each other's hands as they turned to claws, they found freedom from an old, dull pain that neither had ever known they had carried.
They were always meant to be dragons; they were always meant to be mates. Together, they crane long, graceful necks skyward, and fill the blue skies above with dragonsong.
SKRIIIIIAK!
SKREEEHK!
Echoing calls across mountain valleys, birds sent fluttering from distant cedars. The calls of a mated pair, declaring their presence to the world.
A song that says, "I love you."