What's next?

Where there's a hill, there's a way

"I will?" Susan gasped, but despite her uncertain tone the crowd seemed to take this as an affirmation, as she found herself being pushed and pulled towards the cave, amid cheers. "Oh, crumbs. Well, could I get some armour? Maybe a weapon?" She looked around, but saw a lot of blank faces and shrugs. She sighed. "Of course not."

Seeing no other choice, Susan began to make her way up the hillside, which was surprisingly steep and rocky. She clambered up a few metres before her stocking snagged, laddering from thigh to ankle. Susan tutted, remembering how expensive they had been. She continued upwards.

Just before the cave mouth, rocks shifted under Susan's foot and she fell, landing on her stomach and falling halfway back down. The crowd laughed as she got back to her feet, and realised that the remaining half of her dress had torn off on the way, leaving her in her matching white underwear and nothing else.

Cheeks burning with embarrassment, Susan hurried back up, losing a shoe to more shifting stones on the way.

As she disappeared into the cave mouth, she realised that in her eagerness to avoid further embarrassment, she had gone straight into a dragon cave.