Book Seven: Chapter 131

“I never watched those movies.” Ingrid shifted on his back. “Dragons terrify me.”

“Well, the dragon was primarily in The Hobbit, but that’s okay. Are you scared of them because of the drakes?”

He felt her nod against his back, but her voice came from elsewhere. “That’s what I thought they were when I was a child,” she said. “They’re not really the same, but that doesn’t really matter now, does it?”

“No, it doesn’t.” He felt a presence watching them and felt Ingrid tense up so hard that the cave actually squeezed them. He looked toward the entrance and saw a massive eye peering into the cave. It looked suspiciously similar to Di’s. “You’ll have to come back later,” he told it. “We’re talking about important stuff right now.”

There was a long pause, and the eye vanished, followed by the tremors of something big walking away.

“It listened to you,” she said.

“Of course it did,” he replied. “I’ve really only met two dragons, but both of them wer