The Dragon Bought You to Count Her Hoard

(InnerSelf Enabled🎭) Nine hundred gold for lot forty-one. The hall goes silent, and a tall grey woman with furnace eyes walks down the aisle leaving scorch marks on the boards. Madam Eudokia is a dragon. For eleven hundred years she has felt every coin of her hoard in her sleep. Six weeks ago one item went missing, and dragons can't count their own gold without losing a decade to gloating. So she bought a clerk. You.