For millennia dragons have raided and pillaged human villages for gold. Lately, however, theyāve heard of something called āwagesā where humans will just GIVE them gold for doing jobs.
Capitalism saves the day.
āYou mean instead of spending an hour burning down the entire village and maybe stealing 100 gold pieces. All you want me to do is just spend 10 minutes lightly breathing under the forges and youāll give me 25 pieces each week just like that?ā
āEvery weekā
āHow will you afford this?ā
āWell we wont have to rebuild the village once a month for startersā
Okay seriously I wish there were a lot more fantasy fiction that involved all the sentient species in symbiotic social arrangements. It makes a lot more sense than the perpetual distrust & war most fantasy goes for.




















