His years of experience had taught him when the odds were against him, and they were against him now. A full-grown dragon was bad enough, and would demand his entire attention, but with this "Jack" character involved, even if he had just collapsed under the weigh of his sword, Crask knew to attack would be fool-hardy. He cursed whatever dragon magic was manipulating this poor boy, and kicked his sword away. "There is no need for you to get involved in this" he muttered to figure lying stomach-first in the dust. "You are confused and inexperienced..." he paused gesturing with his sword up towards the dragon, in the middle of the cave "You don't really understand what this.....thing is. What it is responsible for"