This is Lord Mountjoy Quickfang Winterforth IV, the hottest dragon in the city. It could burn your head clean off. 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. Lady Ramkin's bosom rose and fell like an empire. It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon.