She dares not range further to protect us, for then the young dragons would die.

In his heart the black dragon never died, Dunk realized.

The last dragons died a hundred years ago or more.

No dragon should die this death, Mirror thought to himself.

If the time came when it was truly up to me whether the dragon lived or died, then I would decide.

And you know what happens when a dragon dies.

Essentially, it involves the dragon dying and then taking over its own corpse.

But the move did not get far before the dragon died.

When a man's dragon died he could become insane, not know what he was doing.

The second part of the story takes place thirteen years later; the dragon dies leaving him with an egg.