The Sun beating down on you in place of the night sky is the first evidence that you are not in Kansas any more. [Not that you were before, but the movie line does match your feelings.] The pull of gravity towards a forest so very far below you follows quickly, as does the feeling of the dragon clutching you and watching those wings successfully keeping both of you aloft [you hope].
Your panic attack [during which you both try to get loose from, and to clutch, the only thing keeping you from falling] is relatively brief, and completely ignored by the dragon, despite screaming loud enough to raise the dead. But you are soon enough reduced to some whimpers, and finally become calm enough to try to make some sense of what has happened to you.
The dragon first of all. Now that you can look calmly..well sorta calmly... it is a lot smaller than you thought. Not that it is at all small. It might measure 30' from nose to tip of the tail, and the wingspread is at least as much. But it is built more like a snake than like a brick. Instead of being bigger than any elephant you had ever seen, it probably only masses about the same as a hippopotamus. Instead of being just a bite, you probably would be a full meal. [Somehow, this does not comfort you.]
It's scales are a riot of shades of red. Scarlet, crimson, and other shades run wild over the entire body. It seems to have a number of horns, tho with your face still almost jammed against its chest, it is hard to get a full view.
You do get a full smell, which reeks of smoke. The idea this dragon breathes fire is looking all too likely. The smell is also one more strike against your fading hope this is just a bad dream and you are still camping by that stream.
Another strike is that the dragon is talking to you.... Well, at you is more accurate. It is babbling something, which you think is a language anyway. You don't understand a word, but it does sound pleased with itself. You presume that is with your capture, and hope he is not taking about how delicious you will taste after a barbecue.
Looking ahead, you think you will find out pretty soon. What seems to be your destination is coming into view.
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