Dead silence from below him. Using it for your own purposes would be like trying to beat mice to death with a rattlesnake. A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. There was a thoughtful pause in the conversation as the assembled Brethren mentally divided the universe into the deserving and the undeserving, and put themselves on the appropriate side. All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing.
Gender is more or less optional.
People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. I thought you were someone else. It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military manoeuvres, right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of. It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing.