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.

riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Dragons

"'God's in his heaven, all’s right with the world,' whispered Anne softly." And then ... the dragons arrived. - (Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery)