The Part About the Dragon is (Mostly) True

This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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I am, if not the most well-known bard in Erithea (yet), arguably the most talented, and unarguably the cleverest. I also wouldn't quibble if you suggested that I'm the most beautiful, but that's just because I'm very agreeable (and beautiful)...

Decades ago, I was sworn to secrecy regarding the true story of the great and terrible “Dragonia,” but recent developments have released me from that promise, and so I can finally tell the tale.

THE PART ABOUT THE DRAGON WAS (MOSTLY) TRUE

“You're not half as funny as you think you are, as I suspect you have a very high opinion of yourself.”

“My opinion of myself is in direct proportion to my amazingness,” I said sweetly.

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THE PART ABOUT THE DRAGON WAS (MOSTLY) TRUE

You know by this point that one of my main goals in telling this story is to show that the adventuring life isn't all it's thought to be. It's mostly boring, frustrating, dangerous (though not excitingly dangerous), smelly (dear gods, so smelly), and not particularly lucrative. Occasionally, however, it's exactly how the songs make it sound, and in those moments, it's easy to see why people—even smart, capable people like Nadi—would devote their lives to doing something so irrational. Let the record show that entering a dragon's lair for the first time is one of those moments, and it's fair to say that each member of our intrepid band experienced more than a frisson of excitement as we crept across that threshold.

The Part About the Dragon Was (Mostly) True