I hope you realize that does nothing to make you sound like less of a stick in the mud. I'd be happy for a game, though.
[Laurence] I have already begun imagining the many ways in which I'll have to apologize for her impertinence. If she's going to be a person here, though, she's going to have to learn a thing or two about behaving on her own.
I shouldn't think that would be so awkward for you. If it were me, maybe, but It's like I was telling Iskierka. He still is a dragon. He's just a dragon in a person's body. You used to sit on his foreleg when you read to him before. It's not really different, is it?