He looked down at the speck next to his foot. Whatever the speck was, it was trying to get his attention. His head moved down to get a closer look at it. There were many creatures in the world, but this was slightly different than any he had ever seen. It was humanoid, though smaller than any he’d encountered. Perhaps it was one of their children. He’d never eaten a human child before. Maybe they tasted differently than the adults did.

“I will vanquish you!”

He raised his eyebrow at the humanoid’s proclamation. Unless this tiny creature had some form of powerful magic, he wouldn’t feel anything it did. Perhaps it was a human child after all. The way it spoke made him think that the creature was merely playacting. Lowering his head all the way to the ground, he scrutinized the creature’s odd appearance. It had a strange knot of hair on the top of its head and carried a weirdly shaped walking stick. He’d heard about a humanoid creature such as this, but he’d never seen one. Then again, it could still be just a human child.

As he was analyzing the creature, it ran forward and hit him in his mouth with its walking stick. He couldn’t help but laugh at the pathetic attack, but when he did, he accidentally let forth a burst of flame breath. The tiny creature was burned to a crisp. He felt bad for killing something so small, but he was starting to get hungry. After swallowing the humanoid whole, he spread his wings and took to the sky, glad once more that he was born a dragon.