There is a factory out there thats powered by dragons. There are a lot actually, dozens across America, and even more in Germany and France and Poland. For hours on end they'll have dragons, big ones, small ones, breathing fire to generate heat and power. It's an old method but it's efficient.
Back in the old days they uses to capture dragons from their lairs to generate power. But in the modern era they pay them wages. Most dragons need money to live too, now that the cattle are all well guarded in factory farms. So the poorest of them need to do things like power factories to make money to eat.
Of course, even in this economy a dragon is hard to control. Especially when you have many in one place. Even with our best sorcerers, and our best guns, few things can stop them, they can heal from any wound, and their fire can melt even steel. They'll ally with the goblins and orcs and humans that mine the raw materials, and the elves and dwarves and humans who work the assembly lines. They can burn down the entire factory, find whatever little human who runs it and threaten to kill him if he doesn't meet their demands, to pay them more, or to make it so they work fewer hours. And if worse comes to worse they can retreat into the forest with the cryptids and the fae.
So they controlled them in another way. The richest creatures in the world, the landlords, and the demon princes, and the old executives, and the vampire kings, started to make the world fear dragons. They made their propaganda, though they called it news and social science, about the dangers of dragons, about how the dragons would burn down the nearby villages if they revolted, how they wanted to take control for themselves and how they'd reign and tyrants. And the people agreed, and soon if the dragons tried to revolt, the army would surround them. And there would be no alliance with the other workers. And new laws were made to protect people the dragons never wanted to hurt from the dragons.
And soon as time went on people wrote books and stories and plays where the dragons were villains. And when that was less socially acceptable, it became commplace that kajiu or aliens who were villains would look like dragons, and conform to all their stereotypes. And the people felt more and more in danger as more and more protocols were made to assure their safety.
And now years later, now that dragons are rare, now that so many are in the factories, it's become fun. Now the towns near the factories will have dragon tours for tourists, and little dragon dolls to sell. Now it is so cute, and so marketable, and so very far away where they're closest.
But the factories still burn sometimes. It always happens sometimes. Even when nobody will ever give into their demands. There are still dragons who fly away into the night. There is still nothing that can contain a dragon, not if it truly wishes to be free.
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