"The problem being, ma'am, no one's seen a real, live dragon for a long time now. "
He was going to see a real live dragon!
Was a share of a real dragon worth a war?
He did not think there would be a real dragon to face.
What if they were real dragons, somehow turned to stone?
That was the situation when a real dragon turned up again.
A real, live dragon sat in her living room.
"Of course, I might not really be expert enough to fight a real dragon."
Or she could cover a real dragon with that illusion of level ground.