His enormous head nodded with a smooth creak of scales.
Another snort, another puff of smoke, another yelp from our audience.
I blinked up at him.
He lengthened his neck so that it stretched straight upward like the many tree trunks that surrounded us.
Flushed with embarrassment, I swallowed.
Nodding to myself in resolve, I said,
I seethed viciously.
The dragon hummed into my mind.
I didn’t know what else to say. The queen had inflicted too much misery to go gently in her sleep.