Truth be told, the ring was quite ornate, and set with a crystal that shone a deep if subdued white. He'd made an effort to make it ornamental as well as functional.

"Just speak the command phrase: 'Polymorph, mebghail.'"

Even as he spoke them, the magic of his own took hold, and he shifted abruptly to his dragon form in mid-explanation.

"It's two words very unlikely to occur in sequence, so as to be hard to invoke accidentally."