It took a while for the dragon to wake up again, but was in much less pain this time. He had heard her, but he couldn't respond until now. "I would if I could, but one of those bloody minions managed to hit me with some kind of spell. Anyway, I'm stuck like this until I...we...can find a way to reverse it. My body can heal fairly quickly in this state, it's just that blasted arrow in my right kidney was making a mess of things." Sure enough, the bleeding had already nearly stopped and the wound was visably smaller than it was when Jessie had pulled the arrow out of his side.
