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[But] that adventure came to a halt when they noticed someone rehearsing for
a music video and thought that it was their chance to be in the spotlight.
They then saw that Lady Gaga and Eminem were filming a music video that
involved knights and dragons.
So, the nobleman rode on the dragon's back over to where
the auditions were being held while the dragon pretended to be
a ventriloquist (with the man on his back acting as dummy) and the dragon said.....
"Will you get off me?" The dragon roared, shaking the nobleman off his back in a frenzy of scales.
The nobleman fell into a dimensional rift with a gasp and
appeared to be surprised at the dragon's mercurial shift of mood,
since it had been the dragon's idea to audition in the first place.
"Maybe he's hungry," the man mused. "Hunger can change anyone's mood. I will get him a sandwich, or maybe a shawarma or something." However, remembering what Daniel did in Bel and the Dragon of apocryphal Biblical fame, he mixed up a bunch of ingredients in the foodstock, most of which can induce a pleasantly relaxed state in even the most agitated archetypal
reptile. The trick is getting him to eat of it. But the nobleman forgot what that concoction was for: force anyone who eats of it to bloat until their insides explode. And so he fed the dragon the concoction, and what happened blew him. The dragon burped and smiled.
"Better out than in," said the dragon, complacently, regarding the nobleman. "May I have the rest now? This stuff would kill a mere mortal, but it's like mother's milk to one of my breed." The dragon blinked modestly. "If milk was what our mothers fed us, that is. My mother, of course did no such thing."
The man laughed a little unsurely, but headed toward the washtub that held the remainder of the repast.