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[Live from the Fire Sector, it's a large black dragon with a very nice necklace! He is seated in his three-story suite, the intervening floors of which have mostly been removed thanks to the expertise and efficiency of Javert's construction team. What parts of it are visible onscreen give the suite a far more spacious appearance than it did previously, which serves to make Temeraire look a little smaller and (hopefully) a little less intimidating.]

It has come to my attention that my appearance has caused some of you distress in the past few days. I should not like to alarm anyone further, so I suppose I had better introduce myself now and clear away any more misconceptions before they have had a chance to start.

I suppose I cannot blame you for your reactions, since I am given to understand many of you are unfamiliar with dragons, save from various legends, most of which sound farfetched at best and highly offensive at worst. But I do not breathe fire, and I am not feral, and I would certainly never do anything as rude as try to kidnap and eat any of you, regardless of whether or not you are a young lady; I cannot imagine it would make much difference in taste, besides. Of course I would not object to having a great pile of gold to sleep on, but as I do not have one at present I am certainly not going to steal yours, unless you are such a booby as to leave it lying around for anyone to take.

[He huffs slightly, then settles back on his haunches, somewhat mollified.] So there we have it: you know that I am here, and that I am not going to accidentally squash you, or eat you, and with that out of the way, I have have noticed a few things which I suppose everyone should be aware of.

Firstly, there seem to be a great number of you from the twenty-first century at least, which I thought was very exciting at first; but now I realize I must have missed a great many things over the course of the last two hundred years, particularly in the realm of the sciences, and I should like to catch up on whatever I have missed. If you are not averse to discussing any of it with me, I should very much like to listen to all you have to say.

Secondly, whatever miasma has afflicted the other sectors is present here in the Fire sector as well; it has grown cold these past few days, and our suites are poorly lit besides. I am certain the damage must have spread elsewhere, and I would like to propose a small expedition of perhaps two or three others, to the outer reaches of the shell. I am curious to see if the disease has also affected what local wildlife remains, and if there is some aspect of its process that we may have overlooked. It will be no great inconvenience to take you on my back; I expect we will be able to get around faster and more comfortably than most, if we fly directly. Of course anyone may come, if they like, but I think it would help very much if you are a scientist, and not afraid of heights.

Pray inform me if you have any questions. [He pauses, then switches off the feed.]

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I hope someone's able to catch you up on everything, Temeraire. I'd offer but science isn't really my thing.

Thank you; I hope so as well. How have you been, Jack?

[ terrible :( ]

I've been okay. How about you? People haven't really been giving you a hard time, have they?

[aw Jack :(]

Well, not a great many people, and I think they were only startled; it is just that I have been hearing a great many stories about dragons eating people, or kidnapping ladies, and I should not like anyone to get the wrong idea.

I guess that would make sense, if the only experience people normally have with dragons is from stories or legends. It's probably good that you cleared it up, but I don't think anyone who's actually met you would worry so much about that.

And personally, I'm kind of glad the fire-breathing part isn't a thing.

Well, that is good, at least; I only do not want to cause any trouble, unless I mean to do it.

[A rumble of amusement.] It would have been very inconvenient for you, would it not? I cannot imagine it would have been at all pleasant for you to have to remake that slide every time I went down it.

Aw, I wouldn't have minded. You were having so much fun it would have been worth making it a hundred times over.

[AW JACK. ;;]

I did enjoy it very much. [Hopefully:] Perhaps we might do it again, if the summers are very warm?

[ At this point in time Jack is thinking "probably not as it might get my lynched" but he doesn't want to drop that on Temeraire so he only lifts his shoulders in a shrug. ]

Maybe, we'll have to see. I may spend the hot months hibernating, I don't know how that's going to work yet.

Oh, in that case, I should not wish to bother you at all. Of course you must rest for the winter; that makes a great deal of sense.

[ Temeraire, you can be his new dragon bro. ]

Aw c'mon, don't make it seem like I want to be a wet mop. If I can be up and around, you know I will be, right?

[/fistbump]

Well, that is certainly true. It must be very dull, to sleep for months and months. Perhaps you could wake up partway through the summer?

How dull would depend on how creative Sandy gets with his dreamsand! But since he's not here, I'm going to try and avoid it.

What about dragons? Do they hibernate at all?

No, we do not; I cannot imagine it would be very interesting to just lie and sleep all day, unless one has very interesting dreams, as you said. So the Sandman is real, as well? I have heard people mention him, before.

Yeah, he's real and he's been around a long time. He'd be happy to know that you've heard of him!

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