"Ah. That." The baroness looked into the shadows around them, and took a deep gulp of mead. "That I got many years ago, across the sea, in the desert of Hamdan. I was lucky that day. Lucky that I had some capable friends by my side, and lucky that we spotted the beast before it could ambush us."<br/><br/>She looked at Mialla from the corner of her eyes, not directly facing the young bard. There was a gravity to her voice that Mialla hadn't heard from her before. "That scale belonged to a red dragon. A crafty beast and nearly my death that day. But," she added a little more lighthearted again, "you could say he made a welcome financial contribution the the founding of this temple."