If you want to build a car, you don't slap a bunch of iron ore, some sand, a rubber tree, and a couple of cows together and call it good

Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake, the dragon eats you.

Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.

That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.

Of course it doesn't make sense." Lady Wendall said. "The rules of society rarely do.

In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.

Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did little good. He simply smiled and corrected her grammar.