“Hartmut! You filthy bastard! You trapped me!”

“Look, you can’t blame me, okay. First you wanted us humans to prance around in nothing but glittery jewelry all day long…which was okay, but the novelty wore off quickly.”

“Yeah, I had never been more ashamed in my life.”

“Shut up, Athos, no one even tried looking at your naked body, in the first case.”

“…”

“Anyway, then you told us to declare a national ‘flower power’ day and that was all right…but no way in hell, will we let you make us wear skirts and run around in a meadow of flowers once a day! That will not happen! Believe it or not, there is a limit to how much glittering-ness that we humans can take and if you try to force your sickening joyful sappy ideas on us, so help me, we shall fight till the last man to protect our self-respect!”

“Self-respect…another weird human notion that we dragons cannot comprehend.”

“Oh, stuff that whole Yahn philosophy up your pie-hole!”

“Just wait, even if I have to endure a million years of solitude, I shall return and when that happens, the whole world will come to know the pinky purple rage of the glittery polka-dot dragon!”

“Yeah, good luck with that…this sealed prison was custom made for you…and I went for the million year bargain.”

“Really, how did that work out for you?”

“It was actually quite a sweet deal. The shop owner had guaranteed me that no soul will be able to break the seal for a million years…plus, I got a coupon.”

“Shouldn’t we be more worried about the poor souls who will have to suffer his wrath in a million years time?”

“Shut up, Athos.”

“…In any case, no hard feelings, eh my friend? I sure hope you won’t think too badly of humans, rotting in that small, confined space for a million years with no one to keep you company, nothing to do and no one to come visit you.”

“Shut up, Athos.”

“…”

“Wait…no, come back! Hello? Damn it, they’re gone and now I’m all alone………………They’ll be back, I’m sure……I’m still here, ya know……………I don’t think they’re coming back……soooo lonely……I wonder how many years I got left………tweet…tweet…hmmm………anybody out there? Hello? Little help in here? Damn it………hello? Nope, still alone……Okay, okay, okay…happy thoughts, happy thoughts…errr……I got a lot of free time on my hands…that’s a plus…I get free lodging…huge plus………bit cramped in here, but actually quite cozy………on the downside, there’s not much to look at…hmmmmm, I’m not too sure I like the floor design, it’s too dreadful for my tastes……hmmmm………la de dee daaah…okaaay………I should sing a song…let’s see, how did that one go again? Oh, I know…one whole year of solitude, one whole year of solitude, we take one down and pass it around, two whole years of solitude…two whole years of solitude, two whole years of solitude, we take one down and pass it around, three whole years of solitude…for some reason, I believe I’m doing it wrong…three whole years of solitude, three whole years of solitude, we take one down and pass it around, four whole years of solitude…”