When Ferdinand had returned to deliver the message of the mighty dragons acceptance of Magnus' gift, the Lord had never been more pleased with him. Which, wasn't exactly hard considering Magnus tended to treat him like dirt beneath his talons, but there wasn't much Ferdi could really do about that.
The flight back up the canyon had been a long and somewhat wobbly one, and Ferdinand didn't fancy much his chances of getting back through that completely unscathed, if...