[I did not write this. I found it online without authorship credit. It's pretty cool and I want to share]

“You… don't look like a dragon.”

“Well, hardly anyone does, these days. Times have changed. We have too. The scales and tails thing worked with the dinosaurs, but we learned quite quickly that… that wasn't going to fly with you people.”

“you were around all the way bacik to the dinosaurs?”

“Well, not like… me personally. How old do you think I am?”

“…There's no safe answer to that.”

“No.”

“So when you say this is your hoard…?”

“All dragons have them. Some stick to the old gold and jewels thing, but that's so cliche these days. Most of us like our hoards to be a little bit more sophisticated than ‘shiny.’ ”

“Like what?”

“I have known dragons to collect snowflakes from the first fall of the year over dozens of centuries. I know dragons that collect petals of flowers left on the graves of loved ones. Dragons that keep and care for soft toys and comfort items, left behind as children grow up. Dragons that guard happy memories and shards of sunlight, kept safe for rainy days. And me, I keep a sanctuary of words. A bastion of language, of poetry. Of writen music and achingly beautiful prose. I am the Guardian of this monument to linguistic majesty. I collect stories of love and life and death and mourning and joy. There is nothing moire beautiful in all the world, no coin or gem or sliver of starlight more fantastic than a well told tale. A story is this world's truest treasure and what better chest for it than a book?”