Lured Into Darkness
Terminax sighs. "Are you prepared to die? If you come with us, there's a good chance you're going to die. We almost died after being attacked by the undead. I hear that the undead like to eat you, which is probably better than getting eaten by a black dragon, which from what I hear is pretty painful as far as deaths go."
As Terminax says this, he slowly closes his book and looks Lyntern in the eye."I heard the tale from an old arena fighter. Seems a fellah he used to fight with managed to escape. He had gone with a few other men to go searching for some Noble's missing daughter. Well, they found her in a black dragon's lair. He along with the rest we're all captured, some killed right on the spot by acid that boiled the flesh from their bones while they just collapsed screaming until they turned into soup. They were the lucky ones. The rest found the girl...
and she was still alive.
See, black dragons like their prey alive, and their meat rotten. So, they poison an arm or a leg, stick it in some foul, tainted water, and once its rotten enough, they'll eat it and make ya watch. This poor girl, her eyelids were eaten right off of her, so she couldn't look away, and the soldiers, some of them got the same treatment. Basically got to watch each other get rotten and eaten, bit by bit, while the dragon laughed and licked it's chops.
Except for the one to get away. He ripped his rotten arm from his body and managed to climb one handed out of the pit they were in... Right up to the black beast itself. It didn't stop him, just told him to bid the father of the lass a fond hello, and not spare h any details. She was still screaming as he escaped." Terminax finally ended the tale, before opening up his book again and went back to reading.
Without looking up he adds,"As I hear it, dragons like treasure, and tasty nobles, and old secrets. If you're ready to leave your home for that, sure, who am I to deny someone a taste of reality?"