"I'm what you might call overspecialized," Signum says. "I don't know any transformation magic, and I'm a bit old to start learning. I was trained as part of a team, you see, and support magic was someone else's specialty."

Still, she continues an impressed inspection of him, now that he's not crashing. "I have always admired dragons, I admit. They're graceful creatures, and usually much less talkative than humans."