| That came as no surprise to Fred-Hannah. And since, when he had been
Fred he had estimated his chances of survival as something like one in
four, it represented quite an improvement. What did surprise Fred-Hannah
was the revelation that destroying (or conceivably taming) the dragon would
only be a step towards the more difficult goal of dealing with its master.
Fred-Hannah supposed that her next action ought to be to read the sealed book. When she opened it, she found it was neatly divided into two sections. She decided to begin with the section containing:
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Belboz's story of his battle with the
dragon's master.