You know that dragons need heat to hatch their eggs.
Women tended to be more nurturing, which was what a young dragon needed.
In the morning, it did not take long at all to hunt enough to take care of everything the dragons would need for a day.
My dragons need time to grow and test their wings.
In order to create fire, dragons need access to plentiful supplies of platinum.
The only hard part had been slipping away at night every so often to hunt, for a dragon needed vastly more food than a hu-man.
That dragon needed the sword, in the hands of a warrior.
At least it did make sense that the dragon should need the river, as the maid had told him.
Even a dragon needed a storm to call lightning down out of the sky, and the weather wasn't obliging with one.
And as for flinging himself into the sky-well, even a dragon needed time to shift.