A little more than ten years after we had all arrived in Key West, saved the universe from annihilation, and settled back to have us some serious fun, bad ugliness and death came into my bar. And then the dragons arrived. - Callahan's Con by Spider Robinson
I suppose I should've known there was more to you than the insipid whore you present yourself to be." Instead of being insulted, Ian smiled almost flirtatiously. "Oh, I am all the whore you can imagine and more, but I do have other talents. Few people see them, although you and your lovely wife are about to. And then the dragons arrived. -Jeaniene Frost, Into the Fire (Night Prince)
When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. When I was Three I was hardly me. When I was Four, I was not much more. When I was Five, I was just alive. For that was the day I barely survived When they opened the door And the Dragons arrived - Now We are Six - A A Milne
"The object of this production I shall consider thoroughly attained, if I and my artistic comrades, the actual performers, shall within these four evenings succeed in artistically conveying my purpose to the true Emotional (not the Critical) Understanding of spectators who shall have gathered together expressly to learn it." - Richard Wagner on The Ring Cycle. Fortunately, the dragons arrived.