Matt was perhaps a fifth of the way on his return trip when he heard the sound of the airplane engine in the distance.
As the sound drew closer Matt trained his field glasses on the tiny speck and as it got closer he got his first good look at a frost dragon.
It was a bluish scaled humanoid dragon pilot and the fellow was
flying a biplane such as hadn't been seen for perhaps a century,a
World War One fighter plane that was painted red and had a black cross
superimposed over a wyvern shaped symbol.
For a second Matt considered hiding but then he realized
it was now or never.
And so
just as the archaic biplane from the Bloody Barons time was drawing away
Matt got a shell into the flare gun and fired it into the sky.
It actually took 3 flares before the frost dragon pilot noticed them
but he turned his biplane around,dropped altitude and
roared a mere two hundred feet above a frantically waving Matt.
The plane waggled its wings to signal he'd been seen
and then the Frost Dragon Clan of Badlili biplane flew off to summon help.
Which came about two hours later when that ice cream truck with its crew
came rushing in.
I ice cream truck also clearly from a century in the past.
Not that Matt,Liz and Kim were complaining.
Help had arrived.