I will call him for you, so you may speak to him, but do not approach him too closely, or argue with him. Dragons are much more short-tempered than de...ons are, and they are much more powerful,” the Guardian told me. She waved a hand then, and I was frozen and unable to hear, see, or do anything.When I became aware again, the fire had burned down, so I knew that considerable time had passed. The torches had also burned down and were providing even less light.With my Magic, I could sense that. He opened the wallet and heldit out to me. I took it to find a picture of a woman in her latetwenties. With her in the picture were a handsome looking man and threechildren, two girls and a boy."She's my baby," he said as I looked at the picture. "The only girl in afamily of five boys."I handed the wallet back to him, and he gazed lovingly at the picturebefore returning the wallet to his pocket."Anyway," he said again to break his train of thought once more. "Wouldyou like a tour?" Definitely!". He was a fiscal conservative, but not obsessive about it. He didn't like to spend money that he didn't have and wasn't motivated to show off his wealth. The sudden increase in income produced by the games had taken him by surprise. His reaction was to put the money aside for use in case of a rainy day. In fact, he was worth well over a million dollars before he purchased a flat screen television. He paid cash for his truck and SUV without changing half of the digits in his bank account balance.. Another minute went by, and finally he realized he was standing in his underwear in the middle of his bedroom. The window had been open all night and the temperature had dropped dramatically, it was freezing cold in his room. The distraction gave him something to do, and he scurried to throw on some clothes and grab a blanket. On the other end of the phone there was still silence, his Aunt Susan had dropped the phone as the cold reality of her sister’s death had hit home in a flash. The.