The dragon-image always guards some priceless thing. This other boy never, in all his endless introspection and analysis, conceived the attacks of extreme sweating as forms of all-body weeping or sadness itself- for childhood's end, for the split self required by society, for any number of possible traumas and estrangements. The disgust of others was a rank projection of his innermost secret, which the dragon both guarded and embodied-he was ignorant of mercy.
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Leave your mind open, receptive to the demons message.