"Some people believe that," she said. "There's really no way to know. That part of our history was lost thousands of years ago."

She tried to stay collected. Matter-of-fact. But really, Ariadne was kind of a shocked as Raleigh, if not more so. She knew that dragons existed, of course. She'd just never met one. Ariadne knew how to get into trouble, but she'd never gone looking for this kind of trouble.

It probably helped that neither of them was carrying a sword. They weren't dressed to play the part of the ancient Heroes. She imagined that dragons didn't like the Heroes very much.

The dragon seemed to be waiting to see what they would do next. And if it was possible for a dragon to look bored, this one was starting to.