well this was the time when folk soke old english such as found in
beowulf
damon knew not a speck of
old english
the dragon did not know that and so the dragon slithered over to the horse and knight and in the time honoured manner told clueless daman
that the guardian of the tintagel hoard so challenging sir knight to mortal combat on the tintagel commons
with the usual terms
transformations permitted
with the winner taking the life or posseions of the loser
there was no reply from damon
but his horse did a familiar dance with her
four legs that irked the dragons memory of a sililar dance one of his daughters used to perform
ah yes the dragon recalled
daughter 13
who used her dancing skills to entertain king minos minataurs till circe put a stop to that
last the dragons had heard of that child she was scraping by as a man eating mare on the island of messalina