I am nearly a year and a half old, and I think...I would come up to the fourth or fifth story of one of the buildings here.

[Temeraire thinks privately that if he ever has any treasure here, he will be sure to keep a close eye on it when Spike is around.]

If I ate them, then they would be gone, and I wouldn't be able to admire them or show them to anyone...and I never thought they would taste very nice, being made of rock.

What do they taste like? [He'd never eat something so nice as a sapphire or a ruby, but he can't help but be curious.]