"Can you blame me?" he retorted, with a grin. "We seem to share the same taste in women, after all, and how could I resist after a hundred years of being surrounded by these lovelies?"<br/><br/>The six of them share stories with Draiss for hours, food eventually brought in for all of them, without interrupting the flow of the storytelling, until the hour started to grow fairly late, and the dragon had to beg off more stories, on account of needing some rest to deal with the dignitaries of the city, in the morning.<br/><br/>"I assume you'll be staying the night, then?" Saarisi asked, as they made their way out of the dragon's main hall towards their own rooms.