[Oh, oh no, this is terrible, even if the person is free now and they are armed, whoever it is, and they do not stand a chance, and--
But then the person is shouting, and it is Percy, and Temeraire has to flare his wings out abruptly to stop in time. Even then he barely manages it: his tail misses the dog by a matter of feet as he backwings up and hovers in the air a short distance away.
The creature is even larger up close, he notes doubtfully: roughly the size of a small elephant, and not friendly-looking, at all.]
Are you quite sure? Only I have never seen a dog that large, before: she is not perhaps a bear?
[He has never seen a bear either, outside of books, but surely it does not hurt to ask.]
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But then the person is shouting, and it is Percy, and Temeraire has to flare his wings out abruptly to stop in time. Even then he barely manages it: his tail misses the dog by a matter of feet as he backwings up and hovers in the air a short distance away.
The creature is even larger up close, he notes doubtfully: roughly the size of a small elephant, and not friendly-looking, at all.]
Are you quite sure? Only I have never seen a dog that large, before: she is not perhaps a bear?
[He has never seen a bear either, outside of books, but surely it does not hurt to ask.]