With all the attacks coming, from every angle, it was inevitable that the dragon would be unable to respond to them all [i]individually[/i] without suffering a small nick from some direction. Of course, with every attack so far made being so targeted at vulnerable positions…

All the dragon had to do was spin, and suddenly the immense size was barely any different from a normal animal doing the same. Although, it must be said that a dragon spinning around, even with wings flaring and adding an oppressive gust of wind to the flying duo, looked almost absurd. Like something that big should never be able to be so sinuous at the same time.

Even stranger was hearing something of that size [i]speak[/i], Thrinax's voice a bassy rumble—but nothing so deep as the size alone suggested. "Not all battles can be won on cleverness alone, little knights. Thou hath proven thy ability to plan, now show thy valour."

The dragon's eyes flicked far back towards Renar's extremely precarious position as he said that. Acknowledgement? Or just a warning before another stream of dragonfire was shot cascading down his side. But this time, the rest of the dragon wasn't still; one claw still slashing out at the captain that threatened his front, and Gerard indeed having to worry about the tail swinging around to crush him. Annoyingly, the dragon's spin hadn't been a complete revolution, leaving everyone just [i]slightly[/i] out of their relative positions and nowhere near as safe.