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in honor of jimin saying he wants black hair again in 2018

Killing a Dragon

“ If anyone had thought to ask him, Tyrion could have told them not to bother. 

Unless one of those long iron scorpion bolts chanced to find an eye, the queen’s pet monster was not like to be brought down by such toys. Dragons are not so easy to kill as that. Tickle him with these and you’ll only make him angry. 

The eyes were where a dragon was most vulnerable. The eyes, and the brain behind them. Not the underbelly, as certain old tales would have it. The scales there were just as tough as those along a dragon’s back and flanks. And not down the gullet either. 

That was madness. 

These would-be dragonslayers might as well try to quench a fire with a spear thrust. “Death comes out of the dragon’s mouth,” Septon Barth had written in his Unnatural History, “but death does not go in that way.”

DID YOU HEAR THAT, D&D? ONLY WAY TO KILL A DRAGON WITH A SCORPION IS A REALLY LUCKY SHOT THROUGH THE EYE. SOMETHING NEITHER THE NIGHT KING NOR EURON DID IN THE SHOW. ANYWHERE WITH SCALES WON’T WORK.