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I sigh, snuggle closer to him, and watch human children playing football on the frosted, sodium-vapour-lit grass.
Then I ask Magvelyn about his dragon hunt, and he tells me how a band of robbers tried to knock him from his saddle in the dark, Elm Forest,
but he hacked off their ugly, bearded heads with his glittering sword.
His voice changes as he describes it: he sounds younger, stronger and happy.