[A story that Draco would most continue to hear upon subsequent introductions such as this one, to be sure. Naturally, the thought made the adventurous old pirate curious.]

So I take it ye hail from a land of talkin' dragons? The biggest beast I know of is the mighty Kraken, ye see, and even that is not exactly inclined for an amicable conversation such as the one we're havin' now.

[And he certainly wouldn't fair as well in such a land. If there be hostile dragons, and he assumed they would be - especially if he were to retain his role as a pirate there - then a ship in open waters wouldn't stand a chance. Even a creature like the Kraken, which was formidable by itself, was at least something a shop's cannons could shoot at.]

And what is this peculiar place that we've all been taken to, if ye can explain further?

[The dragon was right, though. Wherever he was now, it beat being marooned on a faraway island all by himself and left to slowly die.]