The Gentle Dragon
“Not only is your throat much smaller than it was, but there aren’t as many muscles in your throat now. Not only that, there’s a place where your human body directs food to your stomach and in that same crossroads, your air goes into your lungs. If you try to breath while you’re eating, you’ll suck food down into your lungs. In the human world, we say that your food went down the wrong pipe.
She frowns at me like this is the craziest thing she’s ever heard. The dragon’s air goes through their nose, their nostrils running between the two hemispheres of their brain, to the back of their head before flowing directly into their giant lungs.
“It’ll take some getting used to, I’m sure. We’ll conti