She read the parchment, “‘The thing you have to understand about dragons is…'”
“Is what?” he asked.
“I don’t know,” she said. “It stops there. It’s damaged.”
Beyond the torchlight there was a deep grumble and the sound of something heavy dragging over smaller, boney-sounding things.
She squinted. “I imagine there are a very great number of things that are important to understand about dragons.”
He didn’t hear her. He was running. He too could imagine a very great number of things that are important to understand about dragons.
