"Now, mind the place while I'm gone," the wizard said. "Remember, don't taunt the ravens, don't breathe fire anywhere near the books and scrolls, and for the love of all that's magic, do not play with the crystal ball. You know what happened last time."

The dragonling gave his wizard a jaunty salute. "I 'member. I'll be good."

Not ten minutes after the wizard had left, the naughty little dragon was juggling the magical (and expensive) crystal ball with his feet, using it as a bowling ball, and making faces and weird noises at the ravens through it. Noises which he'd picked up by listening to the wizard chant and cast.

You don't want to know what happened that time. We'll just say it involved lots of pointy red demons and ice mites.



Polymer clay, baked, painted, glazed. The "crystal ball" is a marble permanently attached; his open eye is a blue-green cab. Flip-over view shows the lazy little bugger's hands, cradling his head as he foot-juggles that expensive crystal ball ;)