The open structure of the castle was mostly for convenience, but it was also because the things living in this castle do not need walls to protect them from anything.
There was someone inside the castle now. It was a dragon sprawling its large mass and wings across the floor some distance from the entrance.
This dragon possessed three pairs of wings, each being large enough to cover a lake. Its scales were mostly red, with some orange sprinkled in across some areas. It had four white horns on its head with red tattoos drawn across them.
The dragon was motionless. It had its eyes closed and seemed to be sleeping. It was either that or it was dead because there was no sign of breathing.
Its chest wasn't rising and falling, and air wasn't coming out of its nostrils. If not for the occasional flip of its tail, it would pass as a statue or a corpse.
