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. He gently fingered
the tatters of his robe and sighed.
Suddenly, several prolonged hobgoblin screeches echoed
from the cave. They were followed almost immediately by
none other than Toede himself and his four guards, all
squealing like pigs at the top of their lungs and bolting out
of the cave as fast as their fat, armor-clad bodies would
carry them.
"My lord, what happened?" called Groag, jumping to his
feet.
The answer came quickly enough. Out of the cave
emerged a huge, very angry, reptilian head. Right between
its flaring nostrils was stuck Toede's puny arrow. The
emerging head was quickly shown to be attached to a long,
thick serpentine neck that slid out and out until the entirety
of an enormous green dragon stood before the cave.
"Attack! Attaaaack!" screamed Toede, his hands flailing
the air as he retreated across the open ground, his
bodyguards clanking after him. Meanwhile, the dogs had
reversed themselves and were now lunging in the opposite
direction, yelping and dragging some of the slaves with
them back into the forest.
The dragon sat back on its haunches before its cave, its
head soaring above the surrounding pine trees, its leathern
wings opening like two green sails of a great ship
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