Chapter 24
THE DRAGON SKIDDED to a halt. Too many people and animals were in the hall for him to jump over them. The pillars were too close together for him to fly.
Nellie managed to get her feet under her.
The noise in the hall was deafening. Dogs barked, horses neighed, a rooster crowed, the parrots screeched.
The dragon cared about animals, and all these animals from outside on the forecourt had come in here because of him. A number of guards had driven Esme the elephant into a corner of the foyer, where she stood, flapping her ears and swaying her long nose from side to side. She was unhappy and Nellie had no doubt that those guards couldn’t stop her for a second if she really wanted to get out of that corner.
People shouted, “Down with the magician,” and “All hail the Dragonspeak
