- Well, what are you? Negotiate.

I shake my head at the face of this amazing man: dark gray eyes like an overcast sky, but wrinkled rays in the corners, they say that he is also having fun.

- Well, Val, I won’t eat you in the end.

He speaks quietly, in a bewitching low voice, continuing to approach.

-Really? Dragons don't eat people? - I ask with cheerful incredulity, Sfirerat also "seriously" nods.

I should stop and see what happens next, but I keep falling back

- Exactly.

-... about being the oldest stump in the universe.

I do jump back, pushing Randall's chair out in front of me,...