AS IS CUSTOMARY IN FAIRY-TALES...
Help me, I’ve got my claw stuck!” the dragon called out. And, as is customary in fairy-tales, he promised the boy a generous reward. “No, you only want me to free you so that you can eat me!” the boy replied. Because that seemed the appropriate response for a fairy-tale!
“This story will end differently, believe me,” the dragon replied. “I am not an evil wolf but rather a dragon who has lost his way in time. I shouldn’t be here today. But I find myself here”. He whimpered in misery and pain and so eventually the boy took pity on him. “OK my friend, I will do it for you. And I hope that today will be a lucky day for me”. So he began to carefully roll the tree trunk from the dragon’s claw, used a stick to make a splint and attached it to the dragon’s let with his scarf. “So now you will eat me anyway, I guess? But my last good deed will have been to rescue a dragon…”