For dragons, creatures with lifespans nearing infinity, it is difficult to determine whether they are old, young, or middle-aged, even though they indeed experienced youth.
But for Toragotos, sprawled in the very center of the palace, at least by appearance, he was a dragon that had grown old.
Over his long life, wrinkles gradually crept up his cheeks, converging below the raised brow bones or above the corners of the eyes and the slightly curved lips, resembling flowing streams that wound towards the deep caverns of his eye sockets.
In that dark shadow, there were a pair of golden eyes, as if about to extinguish. And similarly to a human, the giant dragon had grown a long silver beard beneath his jowls that trembled with each thunderous breath.
One claw lay over the other, motionless, as he sprawled atop a mountain of Gold Coins, almost as if asleep, occasionally lifting an eyelid to cast a golden gaze at the people in the hall.