The king nods, and begins calling in his advisers, to make plans, while Ellen glowers at him. "Maybe I ought to just stick you with a knife, and save the rest of them the trouble," she says. Charming young woman.<br/><br/>A while later, they're back in her room, Ulden still sleeping, with the dragon more or less perched on top of him, like an oversized cat. Ellen, despite the sleeping man not far away, is busily berating Draiss, on what a fool he was, and how he likely just set off a civil war, with his actions.