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Before the king was able to tease the amulet from his naked wrist, the dragon mashed through the stone wall. The king and his courtesans, in a maneuver no less routine than the soon-to-be orgy, flung themselves from the bed. The trio of guards sprung from their posts, rushed past their fleeing king's posse towards the bedroom, and stuck the creature in its neck with three practiced thrusts of the spear. Quickly it collapsed upon the regent's bed, crushing it entirely. One guard, running the point of his weapon against the creature's scales, noticed underneath the brackish grey beast but another nuisance to be dealt with. "I think there is a girl under this foul beast," he told the others.